Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande has defended the low matric pass requirement, saying SA is becoming "dangerously elitist".
Disillusioned school-leavers believe that the only way to get ahead in life is to get a university degree.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has announced matrics achieved a pass rate of 78.2%, with the Free State getting the top marks of 87.4%.
"A Year in the Wild" and "Back to the Bush" by James Hendry read like a summer holiday, a loud-laughing party with good friends on a warm night.
After more than a year of industrial action, Wits University and three unions have signed a salary agreement for the institution’s staff.
Around the country, in more than 300 towns and villages in SA, people are saying their goodbyes to former president Nelson Mandela.
EFF leader Julius Malema says President Jacob Zuma built an expensive pool at his Nkandla home but nobody in his family can swim.
Zelda la Grange, former personal assistant to Nelson Mandela, talks boundaries, family, and lessons learned from the former president.
A group of concerned parents have taken a Northern Cape primary school to court for forcing its pupils to learn in English.
More than 100 pupils have to share a single toilet at over half of the high schools in Tembisa, found nongovernmental organisation Equal Education.