The Democratic Alliance will make an eleventh hour appeal today to Education MEC Mandla Makupula to negotiate a bailout package that would save 11 000 teaching jobs. The Eastern Cape legislature is due to debate education committee reports in the Eastern Cape legislature this afternoon. The DA wants the Education Department to make an urgent appeal to National Treasury for a bailout to cover the R3.4bn shortfall to pay teachers. The Department only has until Friday to save these jobs … [Read more...] about Fight to keep 11 000 teaching jobs headed to EC legislature

