The demonstration is in solidarity with over 2,400 teachers earmarked to lose their jobs as a result of budget cuts in January next year.
CAPE TOWN - Civil society organisations, unions, teachers, parents, and learners are expected to picket outside the Western Cape Education Department offices on Friday morning.
The picket comes after a meeting in Salt River last week, in which stakeholders tried to find a way forward and stop the planned purge of teachers. Maynier blamed the R3.8 billion budget shortfall by National Treasury as the reason behind the layoffs. The spokesperson of recently-formed Western Cape education advocacy group Education Crisis Committee, Simone Cupido, said the sector was already facing many other challenges.
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