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Ramaphosa said that of the 800,000 planned job opportunities, 300,000 would go to unemployed enrollees to be hired as public school teacher assistants.
The goal was to relieve teachers of additional responsibilities related to Covid-19, such as ensuring classroom hygiene and daily health examination of students, with the teacher assistant earning at least a minimum wage of R3,500 per month.
“We are going to create 300,000 opportunities for young people to become involved as educational and school assistants in schools across the country, to help teachers with basic and routine work so that more time is spent teaching and enables students to students recover from lost time. by Covid, ”Ramaphosa said.
“The stimulus to employment focuses on those interventions that can be implemented more quickly and have the greatest impact on the economic recovery.
“At the heart of stimulating employment is a new and innovative approach to public employment that harnesses the energies and capacities of society at large.”
The president said the R100 billion fund would also be used to protect more than 40,000 vulnerable teaching positions in public schools that have lost fee income because struggling parents can no longer pay.
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