Western Cape education says no teacher retrenchments despite loss of 2,400 jobs due to budget cuts

 Western Cape education says no teacher retrenchments despite loss of 2,400 jobs due to budget cuts

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The Western Cape education department has clarified that although 2400 teaching jobs will be lost by the end of the year, no teachers will be retrenched — but contract teachers won’t be reappointed.  An uproar followed an earlier department statement about plans to cut 2 400 teaching jobs in the province as a result of…...

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Edward Smit