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Deputy President Paul Mashatile said teachers have a crucial role in nurturing, fostering critical thinking, inspiring dreams and pushing the limits of human potential, while speaking at the 14th policy dialogue forum of the International Task Force on teachers for education 2030 in Johannesburg on Monday.
“We thus owe it to these titans of our society to recognise, honour, empower, and value them as well as the job that they do. Most importantly, significant consideration must be made on how we should improve their working conditions and remuneration as a way of appreciating their hard work, so that they can be able to fulfill their important task without getting discouraged” he said.
The Task Force is a global platform for education stakeholders, which aims to foster advocacy, knowledge exchange, peer learning and monitoring progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 on quality education.
Mashatile added that as we are
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