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South Africa’s schools are losing teachers faster than they can replace them | SA News

South Africa’s public schools are heading into a teacher replacement crunch, with almost half of publicly employed educators already 50 or older and thousands of posts still vacant. With a retirement age of 60, this means our basic education system is heading towards a massive retirement wave that will see an almost 50% vacancy in teaching posts.

According to a parliamentary reply from Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube, there were 17,450 vacancies across 389,286 allocated posts, based on Persal data for the end of January 2026. The department said that translated into a national vacancy rate of 4%. The Western Cape recorded the highest vacancy rate at 11%, followed by the…

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