Amid legal wrangles with Equal Education over SA’s education infrastructure, the Eastern Cape has opted to improve two "appallingly unsafe" schools.
Court action to enforce minimum norms for school buildings comes not a moment too soon.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has blasted Mamphela Ramphele on comments that the education system is worse off now than under apartheid.
For the first time since their launch twelve years ago, the awards ceremony was beamed live during prime time to millions of SABC2 viewers.
Equal Education has filed papers against Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to establish minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure.
NGOs have asked the Eastern Cape High Court to overturn Zuma’s decision to withdraw a national intervention team in the province.
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/ 17 February 2012
Basic Education Minister Angie says public school teachers have to go where they are sent if they want to remain employed.
Parliament wants the national education task team back in the Eastern Cape despite hostility from local officials.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says progress is being made in education despite problems in staffing, fees and enrolment.
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/ 3 February 2012
Majority of public schools lagging behind due to the slow delivery of important workbooks.
Education Minister Angie Motshekga has urged parents to make themselves available for nomination in the 2012 school governing body elections.
Various organisations are investigating the legal basis on which new regulations can be challenged.
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/ 18 January 2012
Late applications for school places have dogged the first day of the school year in five of the country’s provinces.
The system over which Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga now presides is far more stable.
There are other factors to consider before we celebrate the ‘improved’ quality of our schooling.
As the ANC’s centenary celebrations kick off, the <em>M&G</em> looks at the cast of characters championing Jacob Zuma’s re-election as party leader.
South Africa’s obsession with the matric pass rate is set to resurface as Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga releases the 2011 matric pass rate.
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/ 27 December 2011
Government is yet to set a date for its planned HIV testing programme in schools around the country as a number of issues still remained unresolved.
A question on television soap opera characters that appeared in a Grade 9 exam has sparked an investigation by the department of basic education.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says they are considering subjecting school principals to competency tests before their appointment.
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/ 15 November 2011
About 53 000 Eastern Cape teachers have moved closer to striking as their union talks tough, setting Friday as the deadline for government to respond.
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/ 11 November 2011
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union could not guarantee that a strike by 53 000 teachers would not disrupt matric exams.
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/ 9 November 2011
The department of basic education is scrambling to avert a possible strike by 53 000 teachers — in the middle of the matric exams.
ANC Women’s League president Angie Motshekga has instructed the league’s North West province to convene a provincial elective conference.
The education department is drafting a new plan to equip teachers with laptops after funding for the initial project was spent on salaries instead.
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/ 8 September 2011
The Centre for Development and Enterprise has challenged the public education sector to form a social movement to improve education in South Africa.
The basic education department is going to beef up its efforts to attract young people to teaching.
The fallout between the ANC and the ANC Youth League has raised fears in the league that there are plans to dissolve it.
The surprise surely is that anyone is surprised. We report elsewhere on the appalling levels of literacy and numeracy among primary school children.
Is South African public schooling damaging some children’s natural potential?
SA’s schools assessment shows how poor classroom performance is linked to poverty, and aggravated by curriculum chaos and inadequate district support.
The way she lived, what she did for her country and her high moral values leave a large legacy.