SADTU GAUTENG WELCOMES THE APPOINTMENT OF MEC FOR BASIC EDUCATION
04 July 2024
SADTU Gauteng notes and welcomes the pronouncement of the seventh administration newly constituted Provincial Executive by the Honourable Premier Panyaza Andrek Lesufi.
We welcome the appointment of honourable Matome Kopano Chiloane as the MEC for Basic Education.The incorporation of Sports, arts and culture shall help advance a holistic approach to learners’ development. Mr Chiloane has valuable experience as former Chairperson of the Education Portfolio Committee before his initial appointment as the MEC in October 2022 under the sixth administration.
He had already begun driving the education transformation agenda with the necessary vigour. Thus, his appointment bodes well for continuity and stability of the basic education sector.
We trust he will strengthen the stakeholder driven approach to address the complex challenges bedeviling the basic education sector in acknowledgment that education is a societal issue.
We congratulate him and wish him well as he assumes this enormous responsibility.
We are looking forward to working with him in advancing decolonised quality public education.