‘Mr President, you failed me’ – University of Fort Hare corruption fallout reaches Ramaphosa

The Shoprite Foundation and the Development Bank of Southern Africa have jointly funded a robotics laboratory in Dullstroom to expand access to coding and digital education for learners in under-resourced schools

Concerns raised by a number of students prior to a tennis match were not managed through appropriate leadership processes

The Services Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) have launched a one-of-a-kind facility aimed at strengthening African-led scientific capacity in skin health. The Africa Research Institute for Skin Health (ARISE) Building is a pioneering African-led, multidisciplinary hub for research, training, and skills development within UCT’s Division of Dermatology. […]

The school said it acknowledged that the school’s cancellation of a tennis match against King David earlier this month ‘were deeply hurtful to the Jewish community’

Inside Minister Manamela’s high-stakes plan to rewrite the rules of higher education

The declining rate reflects deep-rooted challenges that begin in the early school grades

Excellence less about last-minute cramming and more about consistency, discipline, emotional resilience and strong support systems, they say

Among them was Imani Ravhulani, who attained 10 distinctions

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube said the notion that 30% constituted a pass mark was political sloganism

Nearly nine in 10 of Grade 12 learners who wrote examinations administered by the Independent Examinations Board qualified to study for a university degree

The numbers tell a politically uncomfortable truth. A survey of all Grade 4 children in Makhanda’s no-fee public schools this year found that 51% of isiXhosa learners taught in English can read for meaning.  However, for those taught in isiXhosa — despite it being their mother tongue and despite decades of policy emphasising the value […]

In November 2025, the R50 million Funda Uphumelele National Survey (FUNS) delivered the first comprehensive measurement of early-grade reading in all official languages. The findings confirmed what researchers suspected: only 31% of Grade 1 learners can identify 40 letter-sounds per minute — the minimum threshold for reading readiness. By Grade 3, 15% cannot read a […]