Chair, it is indeed a challenge that when most qualified young professionals don't find posts, they go into the adult literacy programme as a waiting station. When they find jobs or when posts appear in the schooling system, they then apply to be full-time teachers.
The reason we are not able to make them full-time teachers is that they work for four hours twice a week. The hours that they work in these programmes do not qualify them to be full-time teachers. That's one of the problems. As a result, this makes the sector very unstable. So, I'm aware of those problems. But because these are professionals who are waiting in there and who have an interest in the mainstream of schooling, we keep on updating them about changes in the education system and give them opportunities for training to ensure that when they apply to come into the education sector, their skills will be up to date with the changes that have been happening in other sectors.
This continues to be a challenge because people who go into this sector are people who are willing to work part-time. In a sense, it's not just people who are willing to work part-time, but these are people who are waiting for posts in the sector. This is what causes instability.
How do we keep them? I don't know. We were not able to do this even in provinces because the hours they work don't qualify them to be full-time employees. They are paid for the hours they work. Others are very happy with this. This allows them to do some work at home - in the case of housewives who are qualified teachers- and only do two hours of teaching a day. But, as I said, others don't go there because they wish to work part- time; they are waiting for other jobs. I hope this answers your question. We can't keep them, but we are training them.