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Education: COVID-19 Fallout
NAPTOSA had fought so hard to ensure that provincial education departments provided sufficient PPEs to schools before they re-opened that it is utterly disheartening to learn that some of the…
September 03, 2020
Saving on long service awards for the public service
An ominous trend seems to be developing in the public service with the State as Employer not effecting salary and benefit improvements when they are due. First it was the salary improvements on 1…
September 01, 2020
Special Needs: Special understanding and focus needed
NAPTOSA condemns police brutality. On 16 August 2020 the country commemorated the Marikana massacre at the hands of the police and only two weeks later we have this shocking and sad alleged killing…
August 31, 2020
Hand off our Pension Fund!!!
NAPTOSA has noted reports over the weekend that Government plans to inter alia access retirement savings, at a favourable rate, as part of its economic recovery plan. The funds are to be utilised to…
August 20, 2020
Better, but still not there yet
As 24 August 2020 gets closer, the ‘big’ return to school day, there appears to have been improvements in some of the areas of concern pertaining to the opening of schools, but alas, a number of the…
August 14, 2020
Crime Statistics: Education is not Immune
How ironic that on the eve of Women’s Month, the Minister of Police releases the crime statistics for the period 1 April 2019 to 30 March 2020, which, yet again, makes for horrific reading,…
August 03, 2020