Teachers crisis lurches on

[caption id="attachment_37492" align="alignright" width="405"] AT A STANDSTILL: Grade 3 pupils at WG Olivier Primary School in Somerset East have not been taught since the beginning of the school year due to the shortage of teachers. Picture: JUDY DE VEGA[/caption]

EASTERN Cape education boss Mthunywa Ngonzo believes the province's schools are making it difficult for the department to fill vacancies as some reject teachers given to them through the redeployment process.

Ngonzo said there was a pool of "redeployable" teachers available to fill vacancies across the province, but schools often turned them away, saying the teachers did not fit their profile.

"We have a whole pool of teachers ready to fill every vacant post in the province, but [schools] keep chopping and changing their requirements," he said.

"That makes our work very difficult because they come back to complain to us again, but don't want what we give them." - Zandile Mbabela