Western Cape Premier Helen Zille understands the problems bedevilling the education sector, says Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
Helen Zille is sticking to her defence of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga despite the criticism that has been volleyed against her.
David Macfarlane wonders where the political accountability in basic education is.
Minister Angie Motshekga has allowed basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan to take special leave ahead of hearings, says the department.
Deputy general secretary of Equal Education Doron Isaacs responds to DA leader Helen Zille’s support of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
Helen Zille became the target of much indignation and appreciation when she defended Angie Motshekga’s performance as basic education minister.
Not one of Alapha Secondary School’s 20 pupils passed their 2012 matric exams and is only one example of the dire state of South Africa’s schools.
We discuss President Jacob Zuma’s fourth Cabinet reshuffle in as many years and his decision to keep “best performer” Angie Motshekga.
An estimated 1.5-million pupils in South Africa are not at school – and it is not difficult to see why.
Equal Education says it won in this settlement with the basic education minister, while the department says it was the one vindicated with the ruling.
Unions and opposition parties have questioned why Angie Motshekga survived President Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet reshuffle despite her poor record.
Moves to discredit Equal Education tend to mobilise civil society rather than weaken it, writes Faranaaz Veriava.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga should apologise publicly for a "racist" statement she made last week, says Equal Education.
The M&G Newsroom radio show between 1pm and 2pm will take a look at the news that is on everyone’s lips: Nelson Mandela’s fast deteriorating health.
After a stint marked by complaints of incompetence, the ANC axe finally came down on its parliamentary chief whip Mathole Motshekga.
The government has disputed Agang leader Mamphela Ramphele’s assertion that it has failed the youth by mismanaging the education system.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has no intention of retracting her department’s blistering attack on rights organisation Equal Education.
Angie Motshekga is way too busy these days to notice the outrage over her poor leadership. Clearly her department is in need of a (Harlem) shake-up.
Denial should not stand in the way of the provision of sexual health services at schools, says Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
The basic education department accused Equal Education of being dishonest and patronising by "organising black African children with half-truths".
Pupils and Equal Education marched to demand that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga publish norms and standards on school infrastructure.
Does Angie Motshekga sincerely intend to ever publish the school norms and standards?
Judge agrees to urgent hearing after minister misses the agreed deadline for educational norms.
An Eastern Cape judge has agreed to treat Equal Education’s new court application against the basic education minister as urgent.
Before teacher training, libraries and laboratories, schools urgently need buildings, water and sanitation. Just get it done, says Nic Spaull.
We track Equal Education’s two-year battle to get Angie Motshekga to publish norms for school infrastructure – a fight that is not over yet.
Equal Education has been preparing papers to go back to court over norms and standards for school infrastructure, says the NGO.
David Hlabane from the communications unit at the department of basic education responds to Marlene van Niekerk’s poem about the education minister.
Equal Education is giving Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga another month to promulgate norms and standards for school infrastructure.
A poem that by some miracle might also reach some children in schools without proper infrastructure, books or decent teachers.
Equal Education has given Angie Motshekga until close of business on Friday to agree to a month’s extension to publish the norms and standards plan.
Guptagate turns into a great whodunit; Motshekga agrees to some of Sadtu’s demands; while Cassel Mathale is in political hot water again.