{"id":85402,"date":"2026-02-20T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/vilakati-defends-headteachers-charging-top-up-fees"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:09:38","slug":"vilakati-defends-headteachers-charging-top-up-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/vilakati-defends-headteachers-charging-top-up-fees","title":{"rendered":"Vilakati Defends Headteachers Charging Top-Up Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong> <\/span><b>Lot Vilakati, the Secretary General (SG) of the Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT) has come out in defense of Headteachers facing disciplinary action by the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) for charging top-up fees.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Headteachers at SNAT Centre this week, the Secretary General said Government must then pay the top-up fees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money is not enough and if Headteachers are stopped from charging parents top-up fees, then Government must pay more money,\u201d said the SNAT Secretary General.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Eswatini<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Lot Vilakati, the Secretary General (SG) of the Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT) has come out in defense of Headteachers facing disciplinary action by the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) for charging top-up fees. Addressing the Headteachers at SNAT Centre this week, the Secretary General said Government must then pay the top-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":85401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-85402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vilakati Defends Headteachers Charging Top-Up Fees - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Eswatini. 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