Teachers disrupt schools' programme

While negotiations are still taking place for overtime payment to be made for working undefined hours, impatient teachers last month began implementing the eight hour programme thus disrupting classes and affecting the double shift system as well as sporting activities in some schools.

Speaking yesterday Bakwena said that they wished the teachers had not taken the decision to start working eight hours when the talks were still ongoing. "What has happened worries us a lot but we are nearing the end of the discussions on the matter but I don't want to specifically state a timeline," she said.