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  • Thousands of teachers severely disrupted schooling in South Africa on Wednesday when they embarked on a "chalkdown" strike in protest at the Government's five per cent salary offer for public servants.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Weary government and South African Democratic Teachers 'Union representatives on Monday night resumed negotiations at a Cape Town hotel in a last-ditch bid to avert Tuesday's threatened chalkdown by nearly 170,000 educators countrywide.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Tuesday afternoon, teachers aligned to the union had begun their chalkdown at 10am as threatened.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Several schools around Durban were affected by the chalkdown on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The chalkdown spread to other schools in the province culminating in a march by more than 3000 teachers on August 21 on the provincial offices of education in Durban where teachers handed

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • "Unless the department tables concrete and tangible proposals on the education crisis, then Sadtu will not rethink its position in relation to the chalkdown," Gcwabaza said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Wealthy, horse-owning couples live in "mink and manure" districts; teachers who go on strike take part in a "chalkdown."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The teacher chalkdown in KwaZulu-Natal over inadequate security at schools entered its fourth week on Monday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The teacher chalkdown followed the shooting of Mzuvele High

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Monday after a four-week teacher chalkdown, in protest against inadequate security at some schools in the province, ended last week.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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  • South African slang - teachers' strike.

    February 26, 2008