{"id":190246,"date":"2025-02-01T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-short-of-12000-teachers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T05:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:00:49","slug":"mozambique-short-of-12000-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-short-of-12000-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Short of 12,000 Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique is short of 12,000 primary and secondary teachers, required for the 2025 school year which is due to begin on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Announcing this deficit at a Maputo press conference on Tuesday, the government spokesperson, the Minister of State Administration, Inocencio Impissa, said the shortage of teachers &#8220;poses a very serious challenge for us&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The excessive workload and the subsequent payment of overtime have been a source of tension between the government and teachers. Last week,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501300052.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Mozambique is short of 12,000 primary and secondary teachers, required for the 2025 school year which is due to begin on Friday. Announcing this deficit at a Maputo press conference on Tuesday, the government spokesperson, the Minister of State Administration, Inocencio Impissa, said the shortage of teachers &#8220;poses a very serious challenge for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,4704,682,257,5196,254,7113],"class_list":["post-190246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-short","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teachers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}