Main education staff unions have reported an increase in the number of members over the past year. Join a union? Not really in Rafaela's family culture.

She herself did not dare to take the plunge, “because of the vision that some people have of unions, complaining and annoying” “I said to myself: What if this happens to me too? We will need to be supported,” says the 26-year-old teacher, who immediately joined the ranks of Snuipp-FSU.