"It's illegal to offer extra lessons to pupils for a fee": Govt warns teachers again

Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Professor Paul Mavima has warned teachers again that it is illegal to offer extra lessons to pupils for a fee.

Said Mavima:

The issue of extra lessons had two problems. The first one was to unequalise the civil service. Imagine if you went to social welfare and you were asked to pay extra for receiving the service that the social welfare officer is supposed to grant you. Would that be okay? Extra lessons also had a problem where one cannot have rational civil service with extra lessons. What if teachers then do not teach during the normal time waiting for parents to pay something in order to receive a service that you were supposed to receive from Government anyway? So the issue of extra lessons had serious problems. It would affect the motivation of the teacher to teach during normal working hours and it disequalised the civil service.

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