Teachers demand reintegration of educators fleeing South Africa xenophobia

Teachers’ unions urged the government to absorb Zimbabwean educators returning from South Africa, where over 100,000 nationals fled a wave of xenophobic violence. The repatriation wave threatens to overwhelm an education system already grappling with chronic underfunding and a brain drain it can scarcely reverse. The government faces a dual pressure: a humanitarian obligation to returnees and the fiscal impossibility of expanding its public sector wage bill.