Question 2328
Dr C P Mulder (FF Plus) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:
(1) (a) In how many newspapers has her department placed a certain advertisement (details furnished), (b) what did the total costs of the advertisement amount to and (c) from which part of her department’s budget will the costs be recouped?
(2) how many educators in every government school in each province fall under each of the five respective categories of years of service that are mentioned in the advertisement?
(3) whether she will (a) investigate cases in which individual educators do not received the salary packages as set out in the advertisement and (b) effect corresponding corrections to their salaries; if not, why not, in each case; if so, (i) what course of action will she take in tackling this issue and (ii) what are the further relevant details?
(4) whether she will make a statement on the matter?
Response:
(1) (a) six, (b) R1.3 million, (c) Director-General’s office
(2)
| Province | Number of educators per notch and years of service | ||||
| Notches | |||||
| R150 105 | R153 129 | R160 920 | R194 421 | R220 278 | |
| Years of service | |||||
| 1 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 30 | |
| Eastern Cape | 991 | 2 080 | 1 137 | 1 280 | 119 |
| Free State | 745 | 416 | 644 | 306 | 67 |
| Gauteng | 2 066 | 1 475 | 1 018 | 789 | 324 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 4 094 | 3 650 | 1 427 | 1 364 | 144 |
| Limpopo | 2 373 | 922 | 1 313 | 1 154 | 263 |
| Mpumalanga | 869 | 744 | 825 | 746 | 100 |
| Northern Cape | 256 | 202 | 217 | 151 | 25 |
| North West | 973 | 442 | 794 | 362 | 81 |
| Western Cape | 809 | 727 | 557 | 497 | 132 |
(3) a. Yes, salary queries of all educators whether brought by individuals or by their labour unions to the attention of the department are immediately investigated.
b. Yes, if there are unintended errors, they will be corrected.
i) Provincial education departments will be requested to investigate each query and provide feedback to the Department of Basic Education, who will in turn respond to the educator.
ii) In cases of unintended errors, such errors will be corrected by the provincial education departments and reports on this provided to Department of Basic Education.
c. There will be no public statement made on this issue because all cases after being attended to, my department contacts the affected individuals detailing the merits of the case or rectifying the unintended errors that might have occurred.
Source: Department of Basic Education
