Teacher cuts strike blow to SA, say protesters

“Strike a teacher, strike a nation.” That was one of the chants shouted by protesters in the southern suburbs against the provincial education department’s plan to cut 2400 teacher posts next year in response to national government budget cuts.
Scores of teachers, parents and pupils from Windsor High School picketed, on the corner of Imam Haron Road and Queen Bess Road, in Lansdowne, on Wednesday September 18. They held up placards saying, “Say no to budget cuts,” “Save our teachers, save our schools,” and “Stop corruption, not education.”