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Western Cape Education Crisis Movement pushing WCED to reconsider teacher job cuts
The Western Cape Education Crisis Movement has intensified its call for the provincial Education Department to reconsider its decision to…
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DA urges govt to find alternate areas for budget cuts to save teachers’ jobs
The Democratic Alliance (DA) said the Education Department’s funding crisis to retain teachers jobs is the direct result of Treasury’s…
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Dad blames Eastern Cape Education for son’s death
A distraught Eastern Cape father is blaming the Education Department for the death of his son. The Grade 12 Rocklands…
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Gauteng pupil left traumatized after teacher cut his hair
A Gauteng teacher faces disciplinary action from the Education Department, for allegedly cutting a pupil’s hair, because they were late…
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Education Dept concerned over spate of suicides at a Gauteng high school
The National Education Department has raised concerns about the recent spate of suicides at a Gauteng high school over the…
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Man jailed for hacking education department’s bank account 13 years ago
A 44-year-old man who hacked the bank accounts of the Eastern Cape education department and stealing almost R600,000 has been…
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Limpopo education dept saddened by death of second learner
Limpopo’s education department has expressed its sadness at the death of a second learner following a collision between a private…
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Cape Town taxi strike: Some scholar transport drivers halt services over safety fears
The Western Cape Scholar Transport Board said that with the safety of pupils and drivers top of mind, a number…
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eThekwini education offices in the dark
The Labour Department has closed off some parts of the Pinetown District Education building. The Education Department was served with…
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City of Ekurhuleni to send private security to cable theft hot spots in Boksburg
The City of Ekurhuleni said that as part of its cable theft intervention, it would assign a private security team…
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KZN Education Dept concerned over lack of improvement in matric maths results
The unsolvable maths question in last year’s matric exams may have contributed to the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education failing to…
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Matric results to be released on Thursday
Education quality assurance body, Umalusi, has confirmed that the matric results will be released will on Thursday, with pupils able…
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Matric results out on 19 January – Education Department
The matric class of 2022 can expect their results on 19 January 2023. In a tweet, the Education Department says…
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Principal caught with school pupil claims they were in a relationship
The 52-year-old deputy principal accused of having s.e.xual relations with a learner said he and the girl were in a…
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Gauteng Education advises parents not to shut down or disrupt learning when unhappy with department
The Gauteng Education Department has appealed to parents not to shut down schools or disrupt learning when disgruntled with the…
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Limpopo Social Department says migration of ECD from Basic Education went smoothly
The Limpopo Social Development Department says it had a smooth transition in handing over the administration functions of Early Childhood…
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Mobile classrooms to be put up following KZN floods
Mobile classrooms will be assembled in Kwazulu-Natal from Tuesday. The provincial Education Department says they are an interim measure to…
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More children and teachers return to schools in KZN
The Education Department says it’s encouraged that more children are returning to school in KwaZulu-Natal. A total of 124 schools…
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Manenberg school dealing with 2 s.e.x scandals
A Manenberg school has been embroiled in two s.e.x scandals. Six boys between the ages of 14 and 17 are…
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Mitchells Plain teacher resigned after she was allegedly s.e.xually assaulted
A Mitchells Plain high school teacher has filed a complaint with police, alleging that a department head at the school…
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North West protest in Ledig causes pupils to miss school for 3 days
A protest in the North West has resulted in about 5,000 pupils from seven schools in the Ledig area near…
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Education Dept accused of duping parents into signing indemnity forms following Tirelong abductions
Police are still puzzled by a bizarre suspected mass abduction involving school children in the North West province. The provincial…
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North West Education Dept accused of ignoring SGB’s pleas to fix Tirelong Secondary
The school governing body at Tirelong Secondary in the North West has accused the Education Department of refusing to listen…
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CGE welcomes Education Dept’s latest measures to prevent teen pregnancies
The Commission for Gender Equality has welcomed the announcement by the Education Department to prevent and manage teenage pregnancy which…
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Marking of matric exams to get underway this week
The 2021 matric exams will officially wrap up this week. Marking will get underway on 8 December. With so many…
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Lack of counsellors in schools contribute to violent incidents, says Naptosa
Teacher’s union Naptosa said there weren’t sufficient counsellors in schools to deal with the violence occurring on school premises. The…
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Over 300 000 applications for 2022 grade 8 academic received so far, says GED
Parents wanting to enroll their children for grade 8 for the 2022 academic year in Gauteng public schools have until…
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COVID-19 vaccine rollout for police officers kicks off
The government’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout for police officers starts on Monday. Police Minister General Bheki Cele and the Acting Minister…
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Educators Union of SA vows to shut down schools
The Educators Union of South Africa has warned that it will physically shut down schools if the Education Department doesn’t…
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Limpopo Education Department condemns rising school bullying cases after pupil death
The Limpopo Education Department has condemned the increasing number of bullying cases amongst pupils following the death of a grade…
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KZN Public Works Dept owed R410 million by provincial Education Dept
The Public Works Department in KwaZulu-Natal said that it was owed a staggering R410 million by the provincial Education Department.…
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Over 2 000 grade 1 and 8 Gauteng pupils still not placed at school
As government schools across the country prepare to open on Monday, more than 2,000 grade 1 and 8 pupils are…
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NW flash floods delay return to school for some teachers
Some teachers in the North West have not been able to report for duty this week due to flash floods.…
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Delays in schools re-opening to impact on teaching: Education Department
Director-General in the Department of Basic Education Mweli Matanzima says delays to the re-opening of schools are going to have…
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Laerskool Bekker SGB to consult lawyers on Keamogetswe Seboko drowning report
The school governing body at Laerskool Bekker in Magaliesburg is expected to consult its legal team on the findings of…
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Boy dies after falling ill at Gauteng school
Education department has urged the community to avoid assuming the cause of death. A 12-year-old boy has died after falling…
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SAHRC Commission says it will monitor schools across the country
The South African Human Rights Commission wants clarity from the Education Department about its decision to open schools to grades…
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Education Department suspends use of pilchards at schools
The Education Department has suspended the use of pilchards at schools. It’s temporarily removed it from the National School Nutrition…
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Parents furious as load shedding strikes at least 30 matric exam centres
The extent of the impact had not yet been established nationally because the Education Department is still waiting for provinces…
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KZN communities urged to help curb school violence
The Education Department in Kwazulu-Natal is on a full-on-campaign to try and curb the scourge of violence in schools there.…
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