Jobs-for-cash: Angie, stakeholders to meet

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will meet with stakeholders cited in the probe before releasing the report to the public.

Johannesburg - Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has received the final report on the teaching-jobs-for-cash scam, but she will first meet stakeholders cited in the probe before releasing it to the public.

“The minister will meet with the relevant stakeholders cited in the report, including teacher unions and school governing body organisations to share the findings of the report,” department spokesman, Elijah Mhlanga, said in a statement released late on Tuesday.

Mhlanga added: “It is necessary to make the report available to the relevant stakeholders cited to avoid them seeing the findings for the first time in the media. The minister will also share the report with the President [Jacob Zuma] before releasing it to the public and the media”.

The investigation task team, led by Professor John Volmink, was established following the damning allegations about “widespread selling” of teacher posts, especially in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.

The preliminary investigation found that current government systems had created a situation which allowed “an exploitation of the system” which compromised proper appointments in critical posts such as school principals.

Motshekga received the report on Friday.

Mhlanga said the consultation process would be completed next month.

African News Agency