There are several reports of Motshekga's statement, which was, once again, NOT a release of the report. The journalists do not mention any admission of responsibility by the Department for the corruption of appointments, if such will be proved to have happened. Instead, the Minister's aim appears to be to avoid responsibility. The Minister seems to be milking the City Press story for as long as possible, with assistance from the DA and from the right wing media. In these circumstances one has to avoid becoming part of an artificial media circus. Hence I will refrain as far as possible from giving credibility to this story by repeating it. When names are named and cases are brought to court, then we can deal with facts, or lack of facts. What one can do in the mean time is to remind oneself and others that the employer is the Department. If the Department has, by whatever means, whether by cowardice, or incompetence, or corruption, relinquished its responsibilities to any other party, then it is culpable. _____
IOL.png Teacher posts are being sold - Motshekga Jonisayi Maromo, African News Agency, Pretoria, 17 December 2015 An investigation has found that teaching positions are being sold in provinces across South Africa, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Thursday. "In our view, the (preliminary) report does confirm that there is corruption and undue influence in the appointment of teachers and school principals. It also confirms that there are weaknesses in the system," Motshekga told reporters in Pretoria. "The report also confirms that the authority of the state and powers of certain stakeholders in the appointment process would have to be reviewed." She said the report indicates that government systems have created a situation which allowed "an exploitation of the system" which compromised proper appointments in critical posts such as school principals. "This has undermined government's ability to deliver on its priority which is education, by allowing unions to have a strangle hold on government, whereby they call the shots," said Motshekga. The task team commenced its work in September 2014 following media reports alleging that teacher unions and education officials were involved on selling of teaching posts. African News Agency From: <http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/teacher-posts-are-being-sold -motshekga-1.1961289#.VnLOlvl9600> http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/teacher-posts-are-being-sold- motshekga-1.1961289#.VnLOlvl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
