Zille grasps sa education - motshekga

Pretoria - western cape premier helen zille understands the difficulties bedevilling the south african education sector, basic education minister angie motshekga aforesaid on tuesday. 

she appreciated zilles efforts to actually clarify the difficulties within the whole sector. 

it shows the very best levels of integrity in terms of inter-government relations, aforesaid motshekga. 

i totally appreciate her understanding as to the challenges facing the sector. 

last month, zille told a da young professionals forum she was an unlikely defender as to the minister, as a result of the real issues leading to actually poor education results in south africa had been diagnosed below motshekga. 

a recent national education analysis and development unit report commissioned by motshekga found poor discipline was why pupils failed. 

zille aforesaid simply there is no other minister before motshekga had been willing to actually offer the area for that report to actually be made. 

in her newsletter, zille aforesaid she supported motshekgas critique as to the norms and standards campaign for college infrastructure, based mostly throughout the 2008 draft printed by her predecessor naledi pandor. 

disciplinary hearing 

on tuesday, motshekga aforesaid the disciplinary hearing of basic education director general bobby soobrayan would begin soon. 

the actual procedure of appointing the judge has also been done in the state law office and therefore the judge is likely to to actually begin at anytime. we can hear from him relating to when he's likely to begin his hearings. 

last month, basic education spokesperson panyaza lesufi aforesaid retired high court judge willem van der merwe had been approached to actually preside with the hearing. 

the sa democratic teachers union ( sadtu ) has accused soobrayan of violating the general public finance management act. 

in april, sadtu held nation-wide protests demanding the resignations of motshekga and soobrayan. it suspended the protests when reaching an agreement with motshekga. 

she promised sadtu that the criticism against soobrayan might possibly be noted the general public service commission, and which it might possibly be treated urgently. 

she undertook to aid an initiative to obtain parity in the general public service, in order to appoint a task team to actually trot out the unions criticism a couple of failure to actually increase the salaries of matric exam markers.