The Education Labour Relations Council ELRC says it is confident the process of verifying the number of teachers and learners in schools across the country will be concluded by October.
The ELRC has been tasked with physically verifying educators and learners in schools across all nine provinces to address allegations of ghost workers in the education sector.
Teacher unions, the Basic Education Department and the nine provincial education departments have also called on the council to conduct a forensic investigation to probe allegations of the selling of posts.