South Africa’s Ramaphosa Signs Contested Schools Bill Into Law. ... gives the education department excessive powers to determine language policy and admission criteria at government schools.

Bongumusa Manana, a 19-year-old deaf student who studies in a township in Johannesburg, sees South Africa's move to recognise sign as an official language as a huge breakthrough that will help him ...

The Department of Basic Education says that children in South Africa are increasingly being taken out of private schools and sent to public schools as parents face mounting economic hardships.

A new education law in South Africa is dividing lawmakers and sparking angry emotions in a country with a complex racial and linguistic history. Last Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the ...

Despite protests, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill at a public ceremony on Friday. The second-largest party in the government of national unity, ...

PRETORIA, Sept 13 (Reuters) – South Africa’s president signed contentious education legislation into law on Friday, angering his party’s main coalition partner amid a debate centred on the ...

Schools in South Africa have raised their fees by CPI plus 2.6% since 2012, and there are already signs that this will continue in 2025. 2025 private school fees warning in South Africa ...