TO: ALL MAPEU AMAHLE

The Professional Educators’ Union is taking note of the impending country wide industrial action penned for the 7th October 2020.

Whilst we are alive to the fact that SAFTU and COSATU are the ones mobilizing their affiliates and further urging every worker in the country to join the industrial , it must be quickly pointed out to you that this has nothing to do with PEU.

Experience has taught us that some of our members will rightlfully still be asking about our standpoint as …

The Professional Educators’ Union (PEU) has noted with concern on media reports that some school principals display a domineering attitude , coupled with the audacity to recall teachers who are staying at home due to underlying conditions, to report back to work, with or without comorbidities, as they simply collect their salaries doing nothing, whilst schools are contending to work with severely reduced staff complements, with additional classes that have inevitably multiplied, to comply with social distancing.

     The General Secretary speaks

We must be upfront in …

Metropolitan donates four thousand (4 000) core-branded face masks to the Professional Educators ’Union (PEU). The benevolence gesture is part of the company’s fiduciary duties to its clientele, as an endeavour to reinforce safety measures for teachers against the pandemic. Mr Koketso Ntsoane,who is Metropolitan ‘s Provincial Key Account Manager, handed over the facemasks to PEU General Secretary, Ben Machipi and Vice President, Mr Mkuseli Dubula, at PEU Head Office in Braamfontein, in a mini ceremony. The face masks will be distributed to all PEU …

The Professional Educators’ Union (PEU)welcomes the lifting of a sizable number of lockdown regulations, to allow movements across the country, in an endeavour to ensure that the country’s economic activities resume in earnest.

 Ben Machipi: PEU General Secretary

As this happens, PEU leadership echoes and amplifies the message by President Ramaphosa, that the lifting of regulations is far from suggesting that the virus has disappeared, and that people should remain vigilant and always practice safety measures at all given time, and should never, not even for a …

Limpopo provincial chairperson: Poncho Gladwin Mabotja. Born and bred at Madietane
village under Matlala area, Limpopo province. He was born on 04 October 1972 as the first
son of Kwena Simon and Ntsitsana Francina Mabotja. Poncho completed his primary
education at Madietane primary school in 1985 and obtained his matric at Ngakana high
school in 1991. He obtained Secondary Teachers Diploma and ACE in Mathematics from
Setotolwane college of Education and UNISA respectively. Poncho started teaching
temporarily in 1995 at Modisha secondary school as a Mathematics and Physical Science
teacher and also …