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A failure to provide safe and dignified hostel conditions for learners with disabilities is widespread in South Africa, the ...
The South African government has launched the 2025 Winter Customary Initiation Season with a coordinated campaign to prevent ...
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) has welcomed the 200 000 young people who this week began work as ...
Teacher unions have called out the department of basic ... of South Africa (Naptosa) said the high number of schools not teaching mathematics does not bode well for the education system.
South Africa’s Department of Basic Education (DBE) has revealed that 464 public schools do not offer Mathematics to their learners. 135 of the schools that don’t offer Mathematics are in ...
The Zero Dropout Campaign has urged the basic education department to focus on “early warning signs”, such as improving access to ECDs, to reduce South Africa’s school dropout rate.
K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum Inter-Agency Joint Committee MATATAG ... April 28, 2025 DM 040, s. 2025 – Updated Composition of the Department of Education Committee on Anti-Red Tape in the ...
After years of debate, the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act has officially been signed into law, bringing with it sweeping changes to South Africa’s education system. Initially proposed ...
Many centres do not have the infrastructure and learning materials needed to provide quality early education. While the Department of Basic Education ... only 10% of South African primary school ...
IN SHORT: In South Africa, students write national school-leaving exams in grade 12, the final year of high school. However, according to some social media posts, the basic education department ...
A shocking claim about South Africa's education has been circulating online. According to netizens schools will now purportedly go up to Grade 13. Numerous videos purporting to have insider ...
The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education ... about scholar transport on South Africa's unsafe roads. Ms Gwarube noted that the department is working hard to formulate a ...