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The Limpopo Department of Education is assessing storm-related damage across schools in the province and confirmed that matric exams remain undisrupted.
Limpopo Department of Education has announced that will temporarily ban street vendors and spaza shops from food in and around schools starting from next week Monday, October 28, due to the rise alleged food poisoning incidents in across the province.
The DA made the call after Chiloane revealed in a written reply to its questions in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature that so many schools were still in what it called the ‘digital wilderness’.
Following a spate of food poisoning related incidents allegedly linked to foreign-owned spaza shops, Gayton McKenzie is calling for deportation of undocumented foreign nationals.
Lebanon's education minister said the start of the new school year was being postponed until November 4 because of security risks.
MEC for Education in Gauteng Matome Chiloane, has provided an update on the school admission process for 2025, saying that they have issued close to 300,000 placement offers to parents of the Grade 1 and Grade 8 learners.
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has condemned the budget cuts to the Department of Basic Education which could see many teachers being unemployed.
Gauteng’s Education MEC Matome Chiloane has vowed to keep the jobs of about 3,400 teachers across the province by slashing various educational programmes amid a R4. 5 billion budget deficit.
Gauteng MEC of Education Matome Chiloane said starting on Monday, placement offers will be sent to parents of 157,407 Grade 1 and 168,457 Grade 8 applicants from the 828,364 received for 2025 admissions.
“The ball is in the minister's court to decide and make the work of the president very easy by terminating her resignation,” said Maluleke.
The DA has called on National Treasury to immediately address this funding shortfall, saying it is unacceptable that provinces are being forced to make difficult decisions because of a wage agreement that was negotiated at national level but not fully funded.
Each of the 30 dolls took approximately eight hours to complete.
Creative, project-based learning environments are proving to be game-changers for neurodivergent learners.
The matriculants of Trinityhouse are set for success following a schooling career grounded in future-focused excellence.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has urged thousands of young pupils who returned to school on Wednesday, to desist from drinking, smoking and to avoid at all costs, teenage pregnancies.
According the KZN Education MEC, Mbali Frazer, given all the measures and interventions in place, her department is ready and prepared for the start of the school year.
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Following the release of Census 2022 by Statistics South Africa on Tuesday, political party Build One South Africa (BOSA) called for education minister Angie Motshekga to be fired.
The Centre for Development and Enterprise exposed the neglected corruption in South Africa’s education sector and advocated for urgent reforms.
Councillors, social workers and security guards will be deployed to a number of high risk schools in Gauteng, with a school safety summit planned for October.
Wimpy has partnered with educational psychologist Seago Maapola to create awareness of the benefits of reading.
A total of over 1732 school shoes, 1123 roll on deodorants, and 2085 sanitary pads were donated to less fortunate communities in rural areas nationwide.
Technology has become an indispensable tool in modern education.
The five maths and four science educators will be conducting the workshops for educators teaching Grade seven, eight, and nine learners.
As of yesterday, the GDE Online Admissions System recorded a total of 131 294 applications made for Grade 1 and 169 613 applications made for Grade 8. This brings the grand total of applications made to 300 907.