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Basic education minister Angie Motshekga will next month officially release the damning jobs-for-cash report to the public.
The interim report, which City Press published last month, reveals that Sadtu has captured and is running six provincial education departments.
Western Cape, Free State and Northern Cape are the only provinces which members of the powerful union don’t control.
In 2014 Motshekga appointed professor John Volmink to probe the jobs-for-cash scam following a series of articles in City Press revealing that school governing body members, Sadtu’s members and officials from the department were selling positions for anything upwards of R100 000. Positions were also paid for by sex and livestock.
Addressing the media in Pretoria, Motshekga said “the council of education ministers (CEM) has received a progress report on the draft finding of the selling of posts. The draft findings were presented to CEM for the first time.
Provinces will deliberate on the recommendations of the report and it will be discussed at the next CEM (meeting).”
She said the report contained a lot of substantive recommendations which need a lot of consultation and processing.
“Some of the recommendations have far-reaching consequences. We need to act and we have to effect those recommendations.”
Motshekga repeated that there is a crisis in the appointment of principals.
She said the team which had been appointed to remodel the Annual National Assessment was hard at work and will conclude its work “in the near future.”
The team was appointed in September after an agreement was reached that the current model was not serving the right purpose.
In December unions refused to administer the tests, saying it was pointless to write them when the current model was under review.
However, some schools did write and Motshekga said a progress report revealed that the numbers were good enough to be used as a sample.
Motshekga also announced the introduction of a mid-year exam for pupils who want to supplement their subjects and those who may have failed one or two subjects and want to improve.
“We are cancelling the supplementary exam in March and people who want to write again, for whatever reason, will do so in June,” she said.
About 8 000 grade one and eight pupils have still not been placed in classes, she said, adding that the province was working overtime to place them.
