Archbishop Thabo Makgoba: 'Cutting education budgets spells disaster'

CAPE TOWN - Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has lashed out at government for failing to provide provinces with enough money to cover public service salary increases.

At the opening the Anglican Church's ruling synod this week, Makgoba said that the government's failure to increase funding for provincial education departments had thrown the education sector into a funding crisis.

The Archbishop noted that the Western Cape was faced with cutting 2,400 contract posts for teachers while Gauteng had cut back on feeding and transporting learners.

"In the sea of unemployment in which we are drowning, cutting education budgets spells disaster. If we are to educate a modern workforce, we should be increasing investment in education, not reducing it."