The Democratic Alliance supports the temporary appointment of Mr. Mthunywa Ngonzo as the superintendent- general of the Eastern Cape Department of Education in the place of Adv. Modidima Mannya.
He has a long record of serving in a senior position in the department, which includes deputy director-general in 2007 and acting superintendent-general in 2009.
Local government in the Eastern Cape is in crisis. In response to a parliamentary question I asked regarding the vacancy rate of senior managers in municipalities, the MEC for Local Government said that 21 of 45 municipalities (including District Municipalities) have vacancies for Municipal Managers, Chief Financial Officers, Technical Directors and Corporate Services Directors. For the reply, click here.
Three of the six District Municipalities in the province namely Cacadu, Amathole and Chris Hani do not have Municipal Managers. Seven local municipalities are also without municipal managers.
Sadtu has finally succeeded in driving out the head of education in the Eastern Cape. The DA has learned with regret that Adv. Modidima Mannya, Superintendent-General of the Department of Education has succumbed to the undue pressure exerted onto him by Sadtu and has stepped down with immediate effect.
This is not in the interest of education in the Eastern Cape, in view of some of the successes achieved and implementation of programmes which would have taken the department forward. Sadtu defied Mannya on many occasions, and absolutely resisted the carrying out of post provisioning for 2012, in other words, the movement of excess educators to substantive vacant posts.
Members of the Portfolio Committee on Local Government and Traditional Affairs will conduct public hearings on the controversial Traditional Courts Bill next week. The Democratic Alliance does not support this bill.
The apartheid government used South Africa’s traditional tribal institutions to entrench a philosophy of separateness. Hendrik Verwoerd famously asserted that they should take the system so far that no one in the future would ever be able to reverse it.
Today I laid criminal charges against a senior SADTU official for attempting to run Lindiwe Mazibuko over with a car.
Ms Mazibuko was walking in solidarity with learners from Mbekweni village, Whittlesea, to their school 12km away on Friday morning.
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