An uproar is brewing in the Western Cape over teaching jobs set to be lost by the end of the year.
Unions have lodged formal disputes over the education department's plan to cut approximately 2 400 posts in 2025.
They say the poor and working class would be hardest hit.
The Western Cape education department says it will not be able to maintain the current number of educator posts due to severe budget cuts.
South Africa is already grappling with a shortage of 31 000 teachers in the country.
For more on this matter, we are joined virtual, by the provincial head of the National Professional Teachers' Organisation Riedwaan Ahmed. Attempts to get a comment from the Western Cape Education Department were unsuccessful.
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