South African Teachers' Strike Shuts Schools, Compounds Educational Crisis - South Africa

Source: bloomberg.com Posted By: Gigi D...5760 days ago

A teachers strike has shut schools across South Africa just weeks before year-end exams, compounding the failures of a state education system that has left more than half the country’s black youths unemployed.

Unions representing about 1.3 million state workers started an open-ended strike on Aug. 18, after the government rejected their demands for an 8.6 percent wage increase. The government offered an increase of 7.5 percent today to end the deadlock.

The strike has highlighted the government’s....

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