Cosatu strike affects schooling with pupils and teachers staying at home
Schooling was the hardest hit community service in the wake of union federation Cosatu’s nation-wide state-capture strike on Wednesday‚ with learners told to stay at home or turned back due to the absence of teachers. In Atteridgeville‚ west of Pretoria‚ several schools were deserted with no teachers or students on site, and in some schools there were trickles of pupils and teachers‚ which forced the school management to call it a day. A taxi driver, who transports students to school, said he had one in his mini-bus on Wednesday and there were very few students — who were also leaving — when he arrived at several schools he serves. In some schools in Soshanguve‚ north of Pretoria‚ parents received text messages on Tuesday afternoon informing them not to send their children to school on Wednesday due to the strike. Agata Seoketsa said she was called by her husband, who works in Maboloka in the North West, on Tuesday night to tell her he had received a text message from Mmabana Primar...
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