NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 373
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 18/02/2011
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 02/2011)
Adv A de W Alberts (FF plus) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:â
(1) Whether any retired teachers have been employed by her
department since March 2010, when the Government placed
advertisements in the national media requesting retired teachers
to rejoin the teaching profession; if not, (a) why not and (b)
what steps her department is going to take in order to remove
restrictions to the reappointment of these retired teachers; if
so,
(2) how many teachers have been appointed (a) in total and (b) in
each province on a (i) temporary or (b) permanent basis and (c)
in the fields of (i) mathematics, (ii) science, (iii) literacy
and (iv) technology? NW404E
RESPONSE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF BASIC EDUCATION
1) (a) Yes, a number of 72 retired teachers have been appointed since
March 2010.
(b) Not applicable
(c) Not applicable
2) (a) 72 retired teachers have been appointed since March 2010 across the
nine Provincial Departments of Education.
(b) Per province
|PED |Nr Teachers |
|Eastern Cape |3 |
|Free State |0 |
|Gauteng |4 |
|KwaZulu Natal|1 |
|Limpopo |2 |
|Mpumalanga |1 |
|Northern Cape|2 |
|North West |0 |
|Western Cape |59 |
|Total |72 |
i) Per province the number of retired teachers appointed in a
temporary capacity
|PED |Nr Teachers |
|Eastern Cape |3 |
|Free State |0 |
|Gauteng |4 |
|KwaZulu Natal|1 |
|Limpopo |2 |
|Mpumalanga |1 |
|Northern Cape|2 |
|North West |0 |
|Western Cape |59 |
|Total |72 |
(b) None have been employed in a permanent capacity.
(c)Information regarding subject specialisation i) mathematics, (ii)
science, (iii) literacy and (iv) technology of teachers is not
readily available and will be requested from the nine Provincial
Departments of Education.