Education must be an essential service

The ANC and the government will make sure education is declared an essential service, party secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Monday. The lekgotla agreed that a mechanism to monitor all-round accountability in the education sector be devised as a matter of urgency. This latest announcement was received with mixed reactions with the DA welcoming the move and unions strongly objecting to it as it would trump the teacher’s right to strike. To provide some analysis was education analyst professor Kobus Maree...