PEU MEDIA RELEASE ON THE RE-DESIGN OF ANNUAL NATIONAL ASSESSMENT (1)
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PEU MEDIA RELEASE ON JUNE 16‘S 40TH COMMEMORATION
The Professional Educators’ Union (PEU) joins millions of fellow South Africans and the World in commemorating the 40th Anniversary of June 16 1976. This has been indeed a fateful day in which thousands of learners in Soweto and surrounding areas put their lives on the line, in protest against the injustices of the then Bantu Education system, particularly the pushing of Afrikaans as medium of instruction by the regime, against the will of the people. The day is …
The Professional Educators Union had a fruitful and successful General Executive Council meeting over the weekend in Hammanskraal. The Council was the penultimate event prior to the Congress, scheduled for the first week of October in Pretoria. The Council will be followed by a serious of Provincial and Districts meetings, whose express purpose will be to communicate and cascade important resolutions to structures and entire union membership. The Union will also hold a series of a labor workshops with an aim of throwing a caution …
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The use of stick in our school is still a challenge that puts most of our teachers on the wrong side of the law. Corporal punishment is outlawed in all of our schools and no amount of reasons put forward to justify the action ever be taken. We therefore enjoin all of our teachers to refrain from the practice, as it continuously puts their jobs on the line. May we kindly make use of other recommended alternative disciplinary measures, as we endeavor to …
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PEU notes with concern, the gruesome murder of a learner at Sithandoomfundo Inanda in Durban. It is unfortunate that the incident optimize the plight of township schools in the country. It is high time that the issue of serious security in our schools be an apex priority before we lose more lives.
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PEU DRAFT MEDIA STATEMENT ON FINDINGS OF THE MINISTERIAL TASK TEAM (MTT) REPORT ON ALLEGATIONS OF SELLING AND BUYING OF PROMOTIONAL POSTS
The Professional Educators’ Union roundly and unequivocally condemns the selling and buying of teaching posts as reported by the Volmink report. We therefore urge Minister Angie Motshekga, to not even think of, but to just go ahead in pressing criminal charges with law enforcement agents, to ensure that this cancerous anathema, hell-bend on discrediting the teaching profession and the delivery of quality …
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The Professional Educators’Union has been part of the historic Worker’s summit that saw fifty one unions converging under one roof in Boksburg, on the 30 Apri 2016,to forge for workers’unity as well as independent unions that are worker controlled and financially self sufficient, for them to prioritise the plight of workers , who are forever experiencing jobs losses, poor working conditions and exploitation by labour brokers and monopoly capitalists,who are hell- burnt to maximise profit at the expense of workers.
PEU was also part of the …
