Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has lashed out at the government for damaging education by failing to provide provinces with enough money to cover public service salary increases.
Makgobas statement comes after Gautengs Education MEC Matome Chiloane announced that he will keep the jobs of about 3,400 teachers across the province by slashing various educational programmes amid a R4.5 billion budget deficit.
In KwaZulu-Natal, the department will see only 774 new teachers being employed in the province.
Currently, more than 45,000 entry level 1 teachers remain unemployed in the province.
Reacting to the new developments, Makgoba said government's failure to increase funding for provincial education departments to cover salary increases has thrown the education sector into a funding crisis .
