Despair after school sports suspension

Friday, March 13, 2020

Hitting the cul-de-sac: School sports has been suspended due to budgetary constraints PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

It has long been coming, and this week the dreaded announcement that school sports had been halted sent immediate despair across the country. Now, authorities are sifting through the rubble searching for a solution that will breathe life into a static conveyor belt that has been key to nurturing talent, writes Mmegi Staffer, CALISTUS KOLANTSHO

Before 2011, there was relative calm in paradise. But a game changing civil servants strike in 2011, saw teachers being moved from the Teaching Service Act to the Public Service Act. The move meant the teachers were now entitled to overtime.

For the first few years the government coped with paying overtime, although cracks were to emerge later, with the State struggling to shell dues.

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