Businerss Day logo, smaller.jpg Teachers union slams task team's jobs probe Bekezela Phakathi, Business Day, Johannesburg, 19 May 2016 The South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) has turned its ire on the ministerial task team which probed the jobs-for-cash scandal, accusing it of being "irrational" following an acrimonious meeting this week. SADTU, which has already vowed to take the report on legal review after its contents were leaked to City Press ahead of its release on Friday, met with Department of Basic Education officials and the task team on Monday to discuss the union's input to the final report. The report paints SADTU in a negative light by red-flagging its dominance in the basic education system by virtue of the union's allegiance to the tripartite alliance. Maluleke 2.jpg SADTU general secretary Mugwena Maluleke said on Wednesday that, during the union's presentation, the team had made it clear nothing in the report would change. "We said to them we will continue with our presentation so that our side of the story is heard. The rules of natural justice say that if someone is accused of something, they should be offered the right of reply.. The task team report never factored our side of the story and, as it stands, is not credible or rational." He said the report was riddled with inaccuracies, generalisations and seemed to target only SADTU and not other unions. Maluleke said it was not for the task team to raise issue about SADTU's involvement in the tripartite alliance. The department had not commented by the time of going to print on Wednesday. The Congress of South African Trade Unions also hit out at the department, saying it believed deferments of the report's release "was a well-calculated move to denigrate SADTU's public standing. This is a . classic smear job." From: http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2016/05/19/teachers-union-slams-task-teams- jobs-probe -- -- 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.
