“These teachers are qualified and registered with the South African Council of Educators (SACE). This is an interim measure to ensure that all schools have teachers while the process of finalising permanent post provisioning continues,” said Pulumani.

He said the post provisioning process would entail moving teachers from overstaffed schools to schools where their services were urgently required.

He added that once the process was finalised, the department would have a reliable profile of teacher needs in the province, enabling the department to issue a valid recruitment bulletin that would result in permanent employment into vacancies.