South Africa's biggest teacher union does not want a DA Minister for Basic Education.The South African Democratic Teachers Union has rejected the potential hand over of the Basic Education Ministry to the Democratic Alliance .The meeting had resolved to reject the DA’s wish to take over the Ministry of Basic Education.
According to the union, the DA had declared itself an enemy of the union through comments made in the media.“The DA demanding Basic Education ministry has nothing to do with a commitment to the nation to ensure quality and equitable education but to destroy the organisation of teachers and their communities, SADTU,” the union said.
“The union will mobilise the masses to unmask the stereotypes that the DA employs to justify the entrenchment of colonial education system where the poor and working class must accept inferior status.”SADTU is part of several unions that are part of the Congress of South African Trade Unions .