Report of the Ministerial Task Team appointed by Minister Angie Motshekga to investigate allegations into the selling of posts of educators by members of teachers unions and departmental officials in provincial education departments: final report, 18 May

The Minister of Basic Education has released the Report of the Ministerial Task Team appointed by Minister Angie Motshekga to investigate allegations into the selling of posts of educators by members of teachers unions and departmental officials in provincial education departments: final report, 18 May 2016. "The Report’s conclusion is that the present environment is not conducive to the provision of quality education, and that there are significant problems in the current system of appointments to posts in education and its recommendations are intended to assist the Department of Basic Education and the educational community in general to address these challenges.

"The Report also provides sufficient evidence that Teacher Unions have a significant impact on the delivery of education in South Africa. If Teacher Unions are to play a genuine role in enhancing teaching and learning, they will need to reposition themselves in order to focus on the task of becoming professional/occupational unions, rather than an industrial union with an adversarial relationship with its employer. Furthermore, these Unions appear to have lost their links with communities. Instead Teacher Unions at present carry the burden of supporting political movements, of holding the education system together at some provincial and local levels and functioning in support and defence of their members. They are rendered almost incapable of thinking and acting educationally as a result."