11 Feb 2015

It is not true that the transfers for primary and secondary school cadre have been frozen.

Assistant Minister of Education and Skills Development, Dr Unity Dow told Parliament that the ministry continued to effect transfers at both primary and secondary schools whenever there was need.     

This, she stated, was demonstrated by the fact that the ministry transferred more than 500 teachers between December 2014 and January 2015.

Dr Dow said it was true that the ministry had delayed to pay temporary teachers’ salaries for the month of January and that this was mainly due to the non-availability and continuous interruption of the GABS system since January.

She said interruption in the system contributed because payments for temporary employees are processed such that they are effected on the last day of each month and that it affected all ministries.

Maun West MP, Mr Tawana Moremi had asked why transfers are frozen in the primary and secondary school teaching cadre and why there are delays in processing payments for temporary teachers. ENDS