Opposition parties want Western Cape premier to redirect funding to save 2 400 teaching posts
Winde argues the shortfall is due to the national government's wage agreement.Opposition parties in the Western Cape are putting pressure on Premier Alan Winde to reprioritise the province's funding.
In 2019, Winde announced that he had redirected 1% of the education and health budget to the province's safety plan. Winde added that R1.1 billion was reallocated to the plan five years ago, which represented just over 1% of the combined health and education budget. "It's unacceptable and callous, and shows that teaching and learning, particularly in poor and working-class areas, is not a priority of this Western Cape provincial government. The funds could have been used to cushion the budget, instead of reducing teaching posts."This is by means of combining the budget and making choices between vanity projects and the most basic obligation, like providing adequate education.
"It is then safe to conclude that these latest events were well-planned and well-orchestrated to undermine the education department at the cost of promoting the so-called safety plan, which the premier deems as his brainchild, a venture which has failed at its inception to say the least," she said.
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