The three teachers unions of the Lesotho Association of Teachers (LAT), Lesotho Teacher’s Trade Unions (LTTU), and the Lesotho Schools Principal Association (LESPA), met in Maseru on Monday this week to express their dissatisfaction, about the decisions reached during their meeting with the Ministry of Education and Training, held from the 18th to the 21st December 2018, and chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister Honourable Monyane Moleleki.

The purpose of the meeting was to provide solutions on the teachers’ grievances against the Ministry of Education and Training, which include the amendment of Education Act, and the synchronization of teachers’ career structure.

On Monday this week, a member of the Lesotho Association of Teachers (LAT) Mr Letsatsi Ntsibulane, said the decisions reached during the meeting are not transparent, and the leaders of their unions complained that they are not promising.

He pointed out that one of the issues which were supposed to be addressed, was the threats made to the leaders of teachers unions, and Honourable Moleleki said nothing about it.

Mr Ntsibulane further said the document of the decisions reached in that meeting is not signed, and the dates of the implementation of the decisions are not stated.

In his remarks Mr Ntsibulane announced that on the 7th January 2019, teachers from the central region made up of the districts of Maseru, Berea Thaba-Tseka and Mafeteng will gather in Maseru, to give them a new mandate after failing to be heard in their grieves even in high offices like the office of the deputy prime minister.

He further said on the 8th and the 9th January 2019 the same thing will happen in the northern and southern regions of the country.