Insight into a teacher's thoughts
To move from one province to another is not so easy at all.
Don't think for one moment to work for the education department it would be the same rules and the same as in another province.
Firstly, the monthly payments are on very different days. The previous province where I taught paid on the 22 of each month. Move to another province, and now they pay you on the very last day of the month! All your debit orders must change.
Then, your housing subsidy doesn't get paid automatically. You must go to the department's office and fill in new forms, otherwise they don't pay it, even though you bought a house in the other province and gave in the forms.
The rules in schools are much different. In Mpumalanga there is very few meetings for teachers, in Gauteng - wow- the meetings don't stop!! It is the first time in my 28 years as teacher I heard about "cluster meetings". They don't even know the word in the other provinces!
It is just clear that the teachers in Gauteng must work much harder for the same pay as teachers in other provinces.