SADTU has received numerous calls from members who are teachers at UMkhanyakude and King Cetshwayo districts that have not been paid. It must be remembered that SADTU has been calling for the movement of all functions especially finance and human resource to the two districts to allow easy and quick processing of appointments and payments. It has come to the point where the Union cannot fold arms and do nothing when it has reached a situation where schools are without teachers, teachers are not paid and many other challenges.

The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) has noted the 2017 Budget delivered by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. The Budget lacks the radical economic transformation as announced by the President Zuma in his State of the Nation Address (SONA). Does this mean the Treasury is again the spokesperson of the white monopoly capital? The economy is not growing and the financial sector continues to allow the banks to manipulate the currency to enrich them but the Treasury is lukewarm on the matter. The Treasury is loudly silent on the Government bank as part of progress to change the apartheid superstructure.

The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) fully supports the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) and the National Education Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU) marches that are due to take place on Wednesday, 22 February 2017.

The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) fully supports the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union's (NEHAWU's) National march on Friday, 10 February, 2017 to highlight the plight of workers in the Social Development Sector.

The Department of Education in the Eastern Cape is at it again, accumulating backlogs on the payment of educator salaries. This is despite the order of the Labour Court on the 14th December 2016. SADTU reiterates its position that the failure of the Department to pay salaries as prescribed in law constitutes a violation of the rights of educators the courts have stated. It is worse when such violations happen despite a court order directing the MEC and the HoD to ensure that all salaries are paid.

The Province, on behalf of its members, wants to congratulate the learners of the matric class of 2016 for the outstanding results.
We applaud all the teachers - from Grade R to 12 - for their dedication to the learners in the province. The Union acknowledges its members who have tirelessly worked after school, over weekends and during vacations to prepare their learners in achieving this milestone.

As schools open their doors on Wednesday, 11 January 2017 ushering in the 2017 academic year, SADTU's National Office Bearers will visit schools around the country to monitor readiness.

The line with our commitment to the Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign (QLTC), we expect to see effective teaching taking place on the first day of school.

SADTU Northern Cape welcomes the matric results of the class of 2016.  We are heartned by the improved results of 78.7 percentage which is an improvement of 9.3 percent from 69.4 percentage in 2015. This qualitative results is an indication of the hard work our educators and learners have put in.

The South African Democratic Teachers` Union in the Free State Province is delighted about the performance of matric class of 2016. We congratulate all learners who managed to get that all important certificate that will open a new world of opportunities for them.

We commend the teachers and SADTU members in particular because as the majority Union in the province, they did the bulk of the work which ensured that the province was not only top in the country but will go down the history annals as the one that beat the 90% threshold.