Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has made new promises for the coming year during her budget presentation in Parliament.
Sadtu has suspended its strike after the basic education minister agreed to some of its demands, including an investigation into her director general.
Considering the amount of time children spend at school, there is no doubt that teachers play a role in shaping the way children conduct themselves.
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Classrooms stood empty as Sadtu members took to the streets calling for Angie Motshekga and Bobby Soobrayan to step down immediately.
Sadtu has threatened a full-blown strike if Zuma does not respond within 21 days to their demand to fire Angie Motshekga and Bobby Soobrayan.
Cosatu has warned Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga not to take action against protesting teachers at the Sadtu march.
Sadtu expects about 25 000 of its members to take part in Wednesday’s march to pressure basic education’s minister and director general to resign.
Teachers joining a planned Sadtu protest march will face disciplinary procedures, says the basic education department.
The basic education department is in breach of a court order regarding textbook delivery, says civil rights group Section27.
Hundreds of South African Democratic Teachers’ Union members have picketed outside the education department’s Durban office.
South Africa has ranked its maths and science education has second last in the world, ahead of Yemen, according to a World Economic Forum report.
The minister has chosen not to comment on plans by Sadtu teachers to start a go-slow in a a call for her resignation.
A number of Gauteng pupils have demanded that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga rewrite her recently published draft norms and standards.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has accused the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) of failing to appreciate the importance of education.
Overcrowding, too few teachers, not enough furniture or appalling toilets seem to have become the norm at some of the Eastern Cape’s schools.
Angie Motshekga has been a disaster as a minister of education. More than that, she has been an embarrassment.
The Centre for Child Law is taking Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga back to court over the shortage of teachers in the Eastern Cape.
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga must resign with immediate effect, says the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union.
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union has intensified its industrial campaign targeting basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan.
Last year’s landmark legal case after the basic education department’s failure to address appalling school infrastructure made its mark on the budget.
Cabinet ministers have come under fire from opposition MPs for missing a crucial debate in Parliament on gender-based violence.
We speak to MPs for reaction on the president’s speech. While at times they were scathing of his address, some were more supportive.
Section27 has threatened to go back to court if shocking school infrastructure problems in hundreds of Limpopo schools are not urgently addressed.
Another opposition party has spoken out about the Limpopo textbooks saga, claiming there are still schools in the province yet to receive textbooks.
The department of basic education has came out guns blazing refuting claims by the DA that there are still schools in Limpopo without textbooks.
The ANC’s aggressive stance on teaching as an essential service bodes ill for three-year wage agreements reached in the public sector last year.
The debate around making teaching an essential service intensified as the ANC reaffirmed its stance on the move seen as an attempt to prevent strikes.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says she is disappointed that an SMS between her and Firstrand chief executive Sizwe Nxasana has been leaked.
Her new infrastructure norms limit the state’s legal obligations to poor schools.
The Rivonia school admissions saga might have been avoided if Minister Angie Motshekga had published norms and standards for school capacity.
The draft norms and standards for school infrastructure that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga recently gazetted could well be illegal.