BOSETU gives MoE daeadline to pay

Botswana Secondary Teachers Union has given the Ministry of Education the end of April as a deadline in paying deserving teachers the scarce skills allowances.

Speaking at a mass rally organised by the union at the Gaborone Senior Secondary School grounds, the BOSETU President Shandukani Hlabano said teachers who were included as scarce skills cadres are still to benefit. He said they have advised the ministry to backdate the teachers' payments to 2008 when  scarce skills was first introduced in the public service.

BOSETU also called on  the MoE, through the Botswana Examinations Council,  to facilitate the payment of teachers who invigilated the 2009 external examinations by the end of April.

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