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Gauteng Education MEC pledges to enhance school safety
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane has reaffirmed his commitment to improving safety in the province’s schools, emphasizing the importance of…
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Gauteng parents have until end January 2025 to finalize school placements for Grade 1 and 8
Gauteng parents have until end January 2025 to finalize school placements for Grade 1 and 8! There’s good news for…
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Gauteng Education Department mourns loss of 2 learners at Riverlea primary school
Gauteng Education Department mourns loss of 2 learners at Riverlea primary school! The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) is reeling…
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Education MEC Chiloane: To improve school safety, parents must play an active role
Education MEC Chiloane: To improve school safety, parents must play an active role! In response to escalating safety concerns at…
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Gangsterism and drugs a concern as 245 Gauteng schools identified as high-risk
Gangsterism and drugs a concern as 245 Gauteng schools identified as high-risk! The Gauteng Department of Education recently announced that…
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Matric exams: Education MEC Chiloane says Gauteng all set
The Gauteng education department says it’s all systems go for the 2024 final matric exams. Close to 190,000 pupils are…
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Investigation under way after school principal gunned down in Gauteng mall
Gauteng MEC for Education, Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Matome Chiloane, has condemned the shooting of a senior school official…
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Gauteng govt not giving up on ambition to establish state-owned bank & pharmaceutical company
In spite of financial constraints, the Gauteng government said it was not giving up on its ambition to establish a…
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Gauteng Education Dept issues almost 300K placement offers for grades 1 and 8 for 2025
The Gauteng Department of Education has issued close to 300,000 placement offers for grades 1 and 8 for 2025. The…
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More than 3,000 teacher posts at risk in Gauteng amid R4.5 billion budget cut
The Gauteng Education Department has committed to finding alternative ways to mitigate the impact of a R4.5 billion budget cut…
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Gauteng parents urged to respond swiftly to provisional acceptance letters for Grades 1 and 8
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane has urged parents who will receive their provisional acceptance letters for grades 1 and 8…
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Gauteng Education Dept to begin 2025 placement on Monday
With the Gauteng Education Department set to begin its placement process on Monday, it says parents can rest assured that…
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Gauteng Education Dept refuses to pay pension to ex-teacher hit by stroke
A Gauteng teacher says he has been left stranded by the Gauteng Department of Education, which has failed to pay…
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Classrooms gutted by fire at Eldorado Park school, few days after a learner was stabbed
Gauteng MEC for Education, Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Matome Chiloane has expressed concern after an inferno gutted Lancea Vale…
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Investigation underway after Gauteng siblings die at school after consuming pap, milk & biscuits at home
Gauteng police are probing the deaths of three siblings, who fell ill at the Evaton Primary School in Sebokeng on…
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MEC Matome Chiloane assures parents all learners will be placed in Gauteng
Gauteng MEC for Education Matome Chiloane has assured parents that all their children will be placed in schools close to…
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Gauteng Education MEC commits to 100 new schools in next 5 years
A hundred new schools over the next 5 years. That is the commitment made by the Gauteng Education MEC Matome…
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Gauteng Education Dept extends Grade 1 and 8 online admissions deadline
The Gauteng Department of Education has extended the 2025 online admission period by 48 hours to allow parents who haven’t…
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Gauteng Education MEC wants driver involved in Carletonville crash to own up
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane has called on the bakkie driver who allegedly rear-ended a scholar transport vehicle in Carletonville…
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Parents & pupils at PHSG dissatisfied with school’s handling of racism scandal
Parents and pupils at Pretoria Girls’ High have expressed dissatisfaction over the school’s handling of its latest racism scandal. The…
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Chiloane says Pretoria High School Girls principal being probed for knowing about alleged racism
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane says the principal of Pretoria High School for Girls is being investigated for knowing about…
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Principal at Pretoria Girls’ High suspended amid fresh racism allegations at school
The Gauteng Education Department has suspended the principal at Pretoria Girls’ High, amid fresh allegations of racism at the school.…
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Carletonville scholar transport crash: Death toll revised from 13 to 12
The death toll in the accident that claimed the lives of learners on the West Rand has been revised from…
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Gauteng online applications for Grades 1 and 8 open today
Online applications for Grades 1 and 8 for the 2025 academic year open at 8 am on Thursday morning. Gauteng…
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Transport driver & 12 learners die in horror crash in Gauteng
A horror crash claiming the lives of 12 learners and their transport driver on Wednesday morning has sent shock waves…
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MEC Chiloane to announce dates & process for Gauteng’s 2025 grade 1 and 8 online admissions
Gauteng pupils on Tuesday are returning to school for the third term bracing for the cold weather. Gauteng Education MEC…
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Spate of suicides shock Gauteng Education MEC
Education MEC Matome Chiloane says he’s shocked by a spate of suicides at a Gauteng school. Four pupils at the…
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4 pupils allegedly commit suicide in 10 days at Ivory Park school
The Eqinisweni Secondary School community is facing a string of tragedies after four pupils from the school allegedly committed suicide…
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Gauteng Education MEC urges SGBs to take on greater role in schools
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane is urging School Governing bodies to play a greater supporting role. That’s as newly elected…
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Law firm investigates deaths of 2 Daveyton pupils at discipline camp
Law firm Seanego Attorneys has been appointed to probe the circumstances that led to the deaths of the two Daveyton…
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Gauteng Education Dept working to strengthen govt gazette on school excursions after drownings
The Gauteng Education Department says it’s working to strengthen the government gazette on school excursions, to ensure that all institutions…
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Two Benoni pupils who drowned while at a camp in Centurion to be laid to rest
Two Benoni boys who drowned while at a camp in Centurion will be laid to rest on Wednesday. Fifteen-year-old Siphamandla…
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Teacher collapses & passes away on Gauteng school premises
The Gauteng Department of Education has suffered another blow after a teacher from Bophelong Secondary School in Vanderbijlpark collapsed and…
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Family of one of the Benoni drowning victims claims pupils were assaulted
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane says he’s disappointed that a school in Benoni failed to reveal that two pupils who…
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Gauteng Education Dept clears Curro Holdings after investigation into alleged racist advert
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) said it conducted an investigation regarding ‘racist’ pictures that went viral on social media,…
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Tembisa residents deeply concerned about deteriorating state of schools
Tembisa residents say they are deeply concerned about the deteriorating state of schools, which they described as a ticking time…
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MEC Chiloane denies claims Gauteng Education Dept is failing to fix decaying infrastructure at schools
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane says it is not true that the department is failing to sort out decaying infrastructure…
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Education MEC Chiloane condemns teacher arrested for alleged drug possession at Ekurhuleni school
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane expressed disappointment at a teacher who was arrested for allegedly being in possession of drugs…
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Gauteng Education MEC: Pupil who shot principal targeted other teachers as well
A pupil who was arrested for shooting his school’s principal allegedly had intentions to also harm two other teachers, says…
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Gauteng Education MEC tells pupils ‘there’s jail for children and it’s not nice’ following principal shooting
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane has visited Primrose Primary School in Germiston, Ekurhuleni where a Grade 6 pupil shot the…
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MEC Matome Chiloane calls for parent to be held accountable for principal’s shooting
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane says parents of the 13-year-old learner who allegedly shot the principal of Primrose Primary School…
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Education MEC to visit Primrose Primary after shooting incident
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane is expected to visit Primrose Primary School in Germiston on Monday, following an incident where…
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Gauteng Edu Dept: It’s believed learner shot school principal after he was chastised to study
The Gauteng Basic Department said it’s believed a learner shot his principal during school hours after being scolded to study.…
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Counseling offered after Grade 6 pupil allegedly shoots principal
The Gauteng Department of Education says it will be providing counselling and trauma support to Primrose Hill Primary School teachers…
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Gauteng Education Dept: Communities must be part of solutions in combatting gangsterism
The Gauteng Education Department says communities need to be part of the solution in combatting gangsterism. This comes after a…
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Learner dies after falling out of moving scholar transport bus in Pretoria
A Grade 6 learner from a school in Pretoria has died after he allegedly fell out of a moving scholar…
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Gauteng Education to conduct investigation into pupil’s drowning
Gauteng Education is roping in an independent legal firm to investigate how a Grade 7 female pupil from Laerskool Queenswood…
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Gauteng Education Dept launches independent investigation after Latoya Temilton’s death
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane has recommended an independent investigation be launched after the death of 12-year-old Latoya Temilton on…
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Gauteng education dept says they will catch up as 1000s of pupils still not placed in schools
While school began a week ago, thousands of pupils in Gauteng have not yet started their academic year. Unhappy parents…
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Gauteng Education MEC lauds quality of matric results in township schools
The Gauteng Department of Education has lauded schools in townships for changing negative perceptions about the quality of education delivered…
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