Commonwealth Teachers Group (CTG) First Edition, March 2025
Get to know Cde Mabutho Cele, CTG Convener Mabutho Cele became a member of SADTU in 1994 when he began his
teaching career Sisebenzile School. In 2003, Cde Cele was elected Education
Convener and Branch secretary for the uMlingo branch then, now named
Victoria Mxenge in the Durban South Region, KwaZulu - Natal. In 2005, he
became the Deputy Chairperson of the Durban South Region and two years
later, the regional secretary.
In 2009, Cde Cele was elected regional chairperson of Durban South Region. In 2011, he was elected KwaZulu-Natal’s Provincial Chairperson. During the 8th National Congress in 2014, Cde Cele was elected Deputy President and was re-elected during the 9th and 10th National Congress in 2019 and 2024. He is the former District Secretary of the SACP in Durban South District and former DEC member. He is former Ward 82 BEC member of the ANC branch and still a member, in Ethekwini Region. Alternative member of COSATU CEC and council member of ITUC Africa Region. He currently holds a Master’s degree in Education Leadership, Management and Policy development. He is currently employed as Principal of Thamela Primary School in KZN. Cde Cele is chairperson of the South African Council for Educators (SACE). Deputy Chairperson of education labour relations council. He is Former President of Africa Federation Teacher Regulatory Authority (AFTRA) and currently the Deputy Secretary General. During the Education International (EI) World Congress held in 2019 in Thailand, Cde Cele was elected convenor of the Commonwealth Teachers Group (CTG), he was then re-elected at its EI’s 10th World Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina during July 2024. As SADTU Deputy President, Cde Cele’s priorities include working on cadreship development with an emphasis on unionism in order for the Union to achieve the 2030 Vision buttressed by ideological unity and cohesion; fight injustices in education brought by privatisation, commodification and marketisation of education locally and internationally.
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