MEC Majuba salutes teachers everywhere
I, along with billions worldwide, appreciate the significant role teachers play in the development of learners and society as a whole.
October 5 is World Teachers' Day. It is a day for the international community to pay homage to and to appreciate the selfless contributions made by teachers.
They often go the extra mile in the quest to empower learners collectively and as individuals to free society from ignorance and hopelessness. They also encourage self-worth. Their selfless, diligent and patriotic efforts were largely displayed during the difficult period of the Covid-19 pandemic. They soldiered on during very challenging circumstances and for that and many other acts of goodwill, we salute and appreciate all our teachers.
The 2021 World Teachers' Day is held under the theme “Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future”.
On behalf of the Mpumalanga Department of Education, I wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to all our teachers for the sterling work they do on a daily basis, delivering lessons that empower our nation with knowledge, skills, attitude and values. Teachers form the integral part of nation building as this profession is the mother of all professions.
As society we owe a great deal of gratitude to our teachers who have taught us to read and write as well as instil in us values of responsibility, love and care, above the core teachings in the different learning areas of the school curriculum.
As a department, we continue to work towards the improvement of the working conditions of our teachers to enable them to focus on their core responsibility of teaching. In this financial year, the department will translate about 3 100 temporary educators to permanent status.
The department is also at work with the translation of grade R practitioners to educators as and when they receive their educator qualifications. We will continue to work hand in glove with teacher unions and other stakeholders to create conditions that are more favourable for teachers within Mpumalanga.
We also make a clarion call to all members of our society to provide support to all our teachers.
Let us honour them by being grateful and appreciative at all times.
I also wish to invite young people within the province to consider taking up teaching as a profession. This will help to inject new blood within the profession and will spell good fortune for the future.
We salute all our heroes and heroines who serve our nation selflessly by imparting valuable, lifelong knowledge and skills. Happy Teachers' Day.
We salute all our heroes and heroines who serve our nation selflessly by imparting valuable skills