{"id":13601,"date":"2022-10-06T15:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/world-teachers-day-snat-president-mbongwa-dlamini-says-empowering-teachers-lead-to-meaningful-development"},"modified":"2022-10-06T15:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:38:37","slug":"world-teachers-day-snat-president-mbongwa-dlamini-says-empowering-teachers-lead-to-meaningful-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/world-teachers-day-snat-president-mbongwa-dlamini-says-empowering-teachers-lead-to-meaningful-development","title":{"rendered":"WORLD TEACHERS\u2019 DAY: SNAT President Mbongwa Dlamini says empowering teachers lead to meaningful development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Mbongwa Dlamini, the President of the Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT) says Government needs to empower teachers in order to facilitate meaningful development instead of investing on physical structures. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, when interviewed by editor Zweli Martin Dlamini as part World Teachers Day, the SNAT President said the world has realized that the education system can only be improved by empowering teachers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As per this year&#8217;s theme, there&#8217;s no development without teachers.Development doesn&#8217;t come from physical structures but from empowered brains. 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