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More than 97 000 learners, who failed their matric last year started with their supplementary examinations yesterday at various centres across the country, said the department of basic education (DoBE).

The leaking of five matric papers in Mpumalanga had been the only proven hiccup marring the national senior certificate examination, education department chief director Nkosinathi Sishi said on Friday.

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has appealed to Grade 12 students to use the last few days before matric examinations constructively to ensure they are ready.

The Mpumalanga education department acted unlawfully when it forced the Afrikaans Hoërskool Ermelo to become a parallel medium school, the Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday.

World leaders and footballers on Tuesday rallied behind a FIFA-backed campaign to educate poor African children, as part of the legacy of the continent’s first football World Cup in 2010.

South Africa will be able to solve its problems only when it has sorted out its educational stumbling blocks, University of the Free State vice chancellor Professor Jonathan Jansen said on Monday.

President Jacob Zuma on Friday told hundreds of school principals education was priority number one for his administration.

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Classes have resumed at Soweto schools following last week’s disruption by teachers, but Gauteng education MEC Barbara Creecy says the return of teachers has been ”uneven”.