Overworked Eastern Cape education assistants unpaid

Lungile Jacobs*, 32, was looking forward to helping learners as a “reading champion” in a quiet corner of the classroom while the teacher focused on teaching the curriculum. He was shocked when he was handed a textbook instead and given three full classes to teach.

But in the Eastern Cape’s Tsomo, Butterworth and Mthatha areas, the education assistants say their five-month phase-three contracts have been reduced to four or three months and some have not yet been paid for May’s work. She says they don’t have a trade union to represent them as a group, and so the education officials either “swear [at] and insult” them when they ask for clarity, or fob them off, telling them “not to panic”.Luzuko Mqadi*, 25, has an undergraduate science degree and is hoping to get a bursary for postgraduate study. He loves his temporary job as an education assistant but has experienced all the problems that Shezi and Jacobs have.

Gade lashed out at her in a comment that was later deleted but not before the youth employees had distributed a screenshot.

EC Education department must just be put under administration

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