Meet SA’s best teacher Gugu Precious Qwabe who believes many SA educators exist in survival mode

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Gugu Precious Qwabe says teachers should not give up on their ideas in schools or get discouraged when their leaders disagree with them.

English teacher Gugu Precious Qwabe, who works at Mandla Mthethwa School of Excellence — a rural school in KwaZulu-Natal, won the award for being the country’s best educator at a ceremony held in Pretoria on Thursday, 5 October 2023.that she never thought she would receive such an honour and was grateful to the Department of Basic Education .

The names of the selected teachers are forwarded to the districts that select district winners, through a process of adjudication. She said teachers in SA are operating with radically different resources — some with less than the bare minimum — due to the history of the country.“It’s not easy sometimes to bring your own ideas cause people are power hungry and this can be so discouraging. Do not change your course. Be the leader. Continue leading everyone and maintain your morals,” she said.

This year’s Kader Asmal Excellence Award award was conferred to Noni Julia Hlahle from Moriting Primary School in Tembisa, Gauteng.

 

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