Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has urged striking teachers to respect their colleagues who chose not to get involved in the strike.
The ANC on Wednesday welcomed Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s changes to the education curriculum.
The outcomes-based education (OBE) system would not be completely scrapped but would be modified to improve the performance of school pupils.
Members of the ANC’s top leadership are planning to take President Jacob Zuma to task over his public scolding of youth leader Julius Malema.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has done the right thing by stepping into the matric exam mess in Mpumalanga
The 2009 matric results indicated there were problems throughout the education system, according to experts in the field.
Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga said on Thursday she was "most unhappy" with the 60,7% pass rate for the National Senior Certificate exams.
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/ 4 December 2009
The Department of Basic Education was back peddling this week following a groundswell of opposition against a “fundamentally flawed” tender.
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/ 23 October 2009
Admit OBE was a mistake and dump bad teaching practices, top analyst advises, writes Primarashni Gower.
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/ 14 September 2009
The Democratic Alliance has given Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga low marks for her management of the portfolio.
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/ 11 September 2009
The education department does not have the money to implement an OSD despite having signed an agreement with unions, Angie Motshekga said on Friday.
While pay demands and service delivery protests cripple South Africa, government leaders are still receiving luxurious perks.
What to make of the war of words that has erupted between Jonathan Jansen and Jessie Duarte?
The luxury vehicles bought by the education minister cast doubt on her commitment to education, a school governing bodies group said on Thursday.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s department has splashed out a new Range Rover and a BMW 730D, at a combined cost of R1,7-million.
The ANC has leapt to the defence of Angie Motshekga after Free State University’s Jonathan Jansen reportedly described her as ”lazy and incompetent”.
Jacob Zuma will inherit some old problems: intra-alliance tensions and provincial ructions — and some new ones created by his Cabinet choice.
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/ 21 February 2009
Divisions within the African National Congress in the North West Province played themselves out at a rally in the Ikageng township on Saturday.
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/ 19 January 2009
The ANC Women’s League has kicked off its ”60 Days of Electioneering Non-Stop” campaign, hoping to assist the ANC win the elections by more than 70%.
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/ 14 January 2009
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma was so impressed by a Soweto school’s pass rate on Wednesday, that he wished he was one of its pupils.
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/ 27 October 2008
SA police warned on Monday they would take action against hate speech by politicians, who are making tough remarks about the breakaway faction.
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/ 23 October 2008
ANC Women’s League president Angie Motshekga won’t apologise for her ”dogs” statement as she had not intended to offend anyone, the ANC says.
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/ 20 October 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) has not gone to the dogs, but the dogs have left the party, said the ANC Women’s League on Monday.
Paul Mashatile is tipped to be Gauteng’s new premier, but there is also a possibility that he may become the finance minister’s deputy.
Fifty-four new schools will be opened in Gauteng this year and 150 science laboratories refurbished in previously disadvantaged communities.
The internal democratic processes of the ANC are being compromised by block-voting and a winner-takes-all mentality.
Both leading candidates for the presidency of the ANC Women’s League seen as strong supporters of Jacob Zuma.
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/ 20 February 2008
An early-warning system is to be implemented in 240 Gauteng schools to prevent ”senseless” violence, provincial education minister Angie Motshekga announced on Wednesday at a briefing outlining the social cluster of the Gauteng legislature’s priorities for the year.
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/ 17 January 2008
A ”wish list” of proposals that could improve service delivery has been sent to the Gauteng premier, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. Spokesperson and member of the provincial legislature Jack Bloom compiled the list. It has been sent to Premier Mbhazima Shilowa, and includes the actions Bloom believes would improve service delivery.
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/ 11 January 2008
Three days into the school year and Gauteng’s teenagers are already hanging around on street corners rather than in class. Bunking classes and smoking outside buildings are a common problem in some high schools, and truancy rates are high in many disadvantaged areas.
Shortages of teachers and textbooks and belated efforts to enrol children were some of the problems plaguing public schools on the first day of term on Wednesday, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said. ”It’s clear that the shortage of classrooms and teachers is dire. One teacher told us that there are between 60 and 70 children to one class.”
The ANC’s national executive committee elected its 28-member national working committee (NWC) on Monday. Get the complete list of NWC members here, as well as the names of the eight ANC members who will form part of the ad hoc committee to draw up a report on the arms deal.