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Truant teachers were absent for close to 7.5 million days last year, according to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
"We have the highest rate of absenteeism in SADC [the Southern African Development Community]. We're at 19 days [average per teacher] a year. It's huge. An average of 10 percent nationally," she told reporters at Parliament on Tuesday.
It is understood that teacher absenteeism in other SADC countries is an average of nine days per teacher...read more here: SA Teachers Set Absentee Record