Mannya has refused to quit as head of the beleaguered department until he has completed his contract and done what he had come to the province to do - try to fix the ailing department.
"I'm not for sale and I have a contract with the department that I am determined to serve out, so I won't be taking any severance package if it were indeed put on the table," he said.
"I will serve my full term and whatever plans there are to dismiss me must happen within the law."
It comes as the union is placing the blame for the chaos in the department at Mannya's door.
Mannya said the problems the union attributes to him are systemic problems that the department has been battling for many years.
"It would be interesting to check the history of past superintendents-general in the department and the manner in which they left," he said.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga echoed the union's call to have Mannya removed - which the superintendent-general found to be undermining.
"I have absolutely no problem with the minister having other preferences of people to run the department and her voicing that. I'm not in the least offended by that," he said. "But I hold a position of authority and deem it proper to have that said to me directly and not have to hear about it in the media."
Among the current gripes between the union and Mannya is the issue of having thousands of temporary teachers axed and the redeployment drive the union is protesting against with go-slows.
He said the union had been fighting redeployment for the past 10 years and thus created a need for temporary teachers "that the department simply can't afford".
"Already 87% of our annual budget goes towards staff compensation and a measly 13% to our core business - pupils and schools - whereas it should be an 80:20 split," he said.
ANC, SA Communist Party and Cosatu representatives have gone to the province to find a political solution to the stalemate.
Mannya said the fact that the interventions of "big guns" had yielded nothing tangible was indicative of the "somewhat trivial" nature of the union's complaints against him.
He said progress had been made in stabilising the department.
Source: The Times via I-Net Bridge
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