• Employment of Educators Act, 1998 (Act No. 76 of 1998)
    • Notice No. 1245 of 1998
    • Act
    • Chapter 1 : Interpretation and Application of Act
      • 1. Definitions
      • 2. Application of Act
      • 3. Employers of educators and other persons
    • Chapter 2 : Conditions of Service and Educator Establishments
      • 4. Salaries and other conditions of service of educators
      • 5. Educator establishments
    • Chapter 3 : Appointments, Promotions and Transfers
      • 6. Powers of employers
      • 6A. First appointment or appointment after break in service of educator
      • 6B. Conversion of temporary employment to permanent employment
      • 7. Appointments and filling of posts
      • 8. Transfer of educators
      • 9. Secondment of educators
    • Chapter 4 : Termination of Services
      • 10. Retirement
      • 11. Discharge of educators
      • 12. Discharge on account of ill-health
      • 13. Discharge of educators appointed on probation
      • 14. Certain educators deemed to be discharged
      • 15. Resignations
    • Chapter 5 : Incapacity and Misconduct
      • 16. Incapable educators
      • 17. Serious misconduct
      • 18. Misconduct
      • 19. [Deleted] Charge of misconduct
      • 20. [Deleted] Suspension of educators
      • 21. [Deleted] Inquiry by disciplinary tribunal
      • 22. [Deleted] Procedure at inquiry
      • 23. [Deleted] Finding of disciplinary tribunal
      • 24. [Deleted] Steps after inquiry
      • 25. Appeals
      • 26. Furnishing South African Council for Educators with records
    • Chapter 6 : [Repealed] South African Council for Educators
      • 27. [Repealed] Establishment
      • 28. [Repealed] Functions and powers of South African Council for Educators
      • 29. [Repealed] Registration with South African Council for Educators
      • 30. [Repealed] Composition, administration and functioning of South African Council for Educators
      • 31. [Repealed] Funds of South African Council for Educators
      • 32. [Repealed] Annual report
    • Chapter 7 : General
      • 33. Performance of other work by educators
      • 34. Offences and Penalties
      • 35. Regulations
      • 36. Assignment of functions
      • 37. Repeal of Act promulgated under Proclamation 138 of 1994, and savings
      • 38. Transitional arrangements in respect of certain colleges
      • 38A. Transitional arrangements in respect of disciplinary proceedings
      • 39. Short title
    • Schedules
      • Schedule 1 
      • Schedule 2
        • Form A : Written Warning
        • Form B : Final Written Warning
        • Form C : Notice of Disciplinary Meeting
        • Form D : Summons to Appear at Disciplinary Hearing
        • Form E : Notice of Appeal 
  • Regulations
    • Regulations regarding the Staffing of Rationalised Educational Institutions
      • Notice No. R. 1742 of 1995
      • 1. Interpretations
      • 2. Objectives
      • 3. Principles for dealing with serving Educators and the Staffing of the Rationalised Educational Institutions
      • 4. Process to be followed in the Rationalisation of Posts in each category of Educational Institutions
      • 5. Process to be followed in the Implementation of a revised Post Provisioning Scale at an Educational Institution which has the effect that Educators are in excess of the Establishment
      • 6. Measures and Procedures which shall apply in respect of Educators who are in excess of approved Establishment
    • Regulations regarding the Terms and Conditions of Employment of Education
      • Notice No. R. 1743 of 1995
      • Chapter 1 : Application of Regulations
        • 1. Definitions
      • Chapter 2 : General Conditions of Service and Salaries : Appointment, Promotion, Transfer and Termination of Service
        • Appointment, Promotion, Transfer and Termination of Service
          • 2. Qualifications for appointment and promotion of educators
          • 3. Appointment on probation
          • 4. Reappointment of Educators who have retired or who have been retired on pension prematurely
          • 5. [Repealed]
          • 6. Date on which salary commences and terminates
          • 7. Remuneration during school holiday
          • 8. Salary increments
          • 9. Salary incremental date
          • 10. Classification into qualification categories
          • 11. Experience
          • 12. Achievement recognition
          • 13. Wrongly granted remuneration
          • 14. Unauthorised remuneration
          • 15. [Repealed]
          • 16. Discharge of an educator on account of the abolition of his or her post or a reduction reorganisation or re-adjustment
        • Remunerative Payments Over and Above Salaries
          • 17. Differentiated allowances
          • 18. [Repealed]
          • 19. Allowance to educators who perform supervisory duties at hostels
          • 20. Compensation for examination-related work
          • 21. Exemption from payment for instruction by educational institutions
          • 22. Department-specific awards
          • 23. Official duty
          • 24. Attendance registers
          • 25. Official channels of communication
          • 26. Replying to questions
          • 27. Lawful Instructions
          • 28. Residential addresses and telephone numbers
          • 29. Full-time study courses
          • 30. Proof of marriage or change of marital status
          • 31. Reports on educators and adverse remarks
          • 32. Management bodies on which educators serve
          • 33. [Repealed]
      • Chapter 3 : Leave of Absence
        • 34. [Repealed]
        • 35. [Repealed]
        • 36. [Repealed]
        • 37. [Repealed]
        • 38. [Repealed]
        • 39. [Repealed]
        • 40. [Repealed]
        • 41. [Repealed]
        • 42. [Repealed]
        • 43. [Repealed]
        • 44. [Repealed]
        • 45. [Repealed]
        • 46. [Repealed]
        • 47. [Repealed]
        • 48. [Repealed]
        • 49. [Repealed]
        • 50. [Repealed]
        • 51. [Repealed]
        • 52. [Repealed]
        • 53. [Repealed]
        • 54. [Repealed]
        • 55. [Repealed]
        • 56. [Repealed]
        • 57. [Repealed]
        • 58. [Repealed]
        • 59. [Repealed]
        • 60. [Repealed]
        • 61. [Repealed]
        • 62. [Repealed]
        • 63. [Repealed]
      • Chapter 4 : Medical Assistance, State Housing, Subsistence Allowance, Official Journeys and Transport, House Owner Allowance, Service Bonus, Long Service Recognition and Resettlement Expenditure
        • 64. Employer contribution
        • 65. Medical assistance to educators who are stationed abroad or who are on official visits abroad
        • 66. Procedure for the submission, chanelling and processing of claims abroad
        • 67. Medical assistance to educators at retirement or termination of service
        • 68. State housing
        • 69. Other housing
        • 70. Accommodation expenditure
        • 71. Official journeys and transport
        • 72. Transport between residence and place of duty
        • 73. Home Owner Allowance Scheme: Application and limits of scheme
        • 74. Calculation of home owners allowance
        • 75. Recognised loan amount
        • 76. Employment of the proceeds from the sale of a previously subsidised dwelling
        • 77. Date with effect from which the home owners allowance is paid
        • 78. Home owners allowance payment period
        • 79. Recognition of further or increased registered mortgages
        • 80. Recognition of advances and reinstitution of existing registered mortgages
        • 81. Allowance payment during official duty away from headquarters
        • 82. Allowance payment on transfer to a foreign country or from one headquarter to another in the Republic
        • 83. Allowance payment on transfer to or appointment in education
        • 84. Effect of leave of absence on allowances
        • 85. Responsibility of participants in scheme
        • 86. Over and underpayments of allowances
        • 87. General measures concerning the payment of a home owner allowance
        • 88. Service bonus
        • 89. Long service recognition 
        • 90. Resettlement expenditure
        • 91. Repeal of regulations and savings
      • Annexure A
    • Regulations for the Creation of Educators Posts in a Provincial Department of Education and the Distribution of such Posts to the Educational Institutions of such a Department
      • Notice No. R. 1676 of 1998
      • 1. Determination of Educator Post Establishment of Provincial Department of Education by Member of Executive Council Concerned
      • 2. Determination of the educator post establishments of schools by a Head of a Provincial Department of Education
      • Annexure 1 : Post Distribution Model for the Allocation of Educator Posts to Schools
        • Principles on which the Model is Based
        • Factors that are being taken into account in determining the Post provisioning needs of Schools and Learners
        • Weighting Norms
        • Distribution Formula
        • Phasing in of the Model
        • Communication of New Post Establishments with Schools
        • Role of the National Department of Education (DOE)
        • Transitional Arrangement
    • The South African Council for Educators Regulations
      • Notice No. R. 1293 of 1999
      • 1. Definitions
      • 2. Composition of the South African Council for Educators
      • 3. Term of office of co-chairpersons and members
      • 4. Vacation of office by members
      • 5. Filling of vacancies
      • 6. Executive committee of the South African Council for Educators
      • 7. Committees of the South African Council for Educators
      • 8. Meetings of the South African Council for Educators and committees
      • Short title and commencement
  • Notices
    • Terms and Conditions of Employment of Educators determined in terms of Section 4 of the Employment of Educators Act, 1998
      • Notice No. 331 of 2021
      • Prevention of re-employment of former Educators discharged or deemed discharged for misconduct or deemed resigned
        • 1. Scope of Plicability
        • 2. Definitions
        • 3. Purpose
        • 4. Period of prevention of the re-employment of former Employees discharged for misconduct or deemed discharged or deemed resigned
      • The Role of the prospective Employing Department for re-employment or former Educators discharged or deemed discharged for misconduct or deemed resigned
        • 5. Application for re-employment
        • 6. Table
    • Improvement in Conditions of Service: Annual Cost-of-Living Adjustment for Educators Employed in terms of the Act, with effect from 1 April 2021
      • Notice No. 1600 of 2021
      • Schedules
        • Schedule 1
        • Schedule 2
    • Improvement in Conditions of Service: Annual Cost-of-Living Adjustment for Educators Employed in terms of the Act, with effect from 1 April 2022
      • Notice No. 2952 of 2023
      • Schedules
        • Schedule 1
        • Schedule 2
        • Schedule 3
    • Improvement in Conditions of Service : Annual Cost-of-Living Adjustment for Educators Employed in terms of the Act, with effect from 1 April 2023
      • Notice No. 4995 of 2024
      • Schedules
        • Schedule 1
        • Schedule 2