- 18 Apr 2013 12:20 - Sapa
- The basic education department is in breach of a court order regarding textbook delivery, says civil rights group Section27.
- 05 Mar 2013 16:01 - Nomalanga Mkhize
- Parents in the Eastern Cape have shut down schools because of horrendous conditions. Nomalanga Mkhize asks when the state will step in.
- 28 Feb 2013 13:24 - Thalia Holmes
- Last year's landmark legal case after the basic education department's failure to address appalling school infrastructure made its mark on the budget.
- 31 Jan 2013 19:37 - Bongani Nkosi
- The right to basic education has received a major boost with the launch of the South African Human Rights Commission's (SAHRC) landmark charter.
- 18 Jan 2013 11:16 - Elizabeth Henning
- Our expensive testing and research still do not tell us enough about how children learn the subject, writes Elizabeth Henning.
- 18 Jan 2013 10:24 - Letters
- The first bad thing about the 2012 matric results is that 35% of the pupils failed completely.
- 11 Jan 2013 11:40 - Songezo Zibi
- The failure of education is political and goes back to the importance we attach to it, says Songezo Zibi.
- 09 Jan 2013 16:00
- As inland provinces gear up for the new academic year, about two-million children started school in Gauteng on January 9.
- 05 Jan 2013 12:14 - Sapa
- Students who did not pass their matric have until January 21 to register for a re-marking or re-checking.
- 04 Jan 2013 06:00 - Editorial
- Education Minister Angie Motshekga has asked the country to believe that 73.9% of grade 12s are sufficiently literate and numerate to pass matric.
- 30 Nov 2012 14:30 - Bongani Nkosi
- The basic education department has agreed to deliver furniture to three Eastern Cape schools after a court challenge by the Legal Resources Centre.
- 23 Nov 2012 00:00 - Victoria John
- They've just won a major legal victory, but for Equal Education the battle has only begun.
- 26 Oct 2012 00:00 - Bongani Nkosi
- A flawed funding model results in poor schools reducing the number of subjects they offer and enduring larger class sizes than richer schools.
- 23 Oct 2012 10:26 - Sapa
- Despite recent protests, floods and textbook delivery problems, more than 500 000 pupils sat for their first matric exam on Monday.
- 18 Oct 2012 12:22 - Faranaaz Parker
- Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says her department has done all it can to help learners through a "really dramatic year" ahead of exams.
- 12 Oct 2012 07:40 - Bongani Nkosi, Victoria John,
- Basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan has blamed budgetary constraints and pupil data problems for the department's failures.
- 20 Jul 2012 09:44 - Mduduzi Manana
- Mduduzi Manana writes to Professor Peter Vale to say he is committed to delivering quality education in South Africa.
- 13 Jul 2012 06:23 - David Macfarlane
- New data expose the staggering inequities in state schooling, putting Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga's own performance squarely on the line.
- 06 Jul 2012 06:34 - Jean Pease
- Moves are afoot to ask the Constitutional Court to enforce quality basic education for all children in the country, Jean Pease reports.
- 23 Jun 2012 18:09 - Sapa
- The DA and Cope have said they want Angie Motshekga to answer to allegations that textbooks are being dumped and destroyed in Limpopo.
