The top three winners in the Excellence in Primary School Leadership.
The winners in the Excellence in Adult Basic Education and Training category were announced in Johannesburg recently at the National Teaching Awards.
For the first time since their launch twelve years ago, the awards ceremony was beamed live during prime time to millions of SABC2 viewers.
Kgalema Motlanthe, deputy-president of South Africa, delivered a keynote address to the National Teaching Awards, eulogising teachers.
Whereas other countries in the world fight over water, many come to Southern Africa to learn how to share water equitably.
Violent protests near Cape Town and Jo’burg — over schooling and power cuts — have been met with police water cannons, stun grenades and tear gas.
The Gauteng provincial government paid out R612-million in legal settlements last year, after losing 39 cases and settling 71, the DA says.
Gauteng’s DA leader John Moodey plans to seize the province from the ANC’s clutches. The <i>M&G</i> asked him how he plans to do this.
Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane says e-tolling will be rolled out on April 30, regardless of intense public and union opposition to the plans.
Zwelinzima Vavi says Wednesday’s march is the first warning shot in Cosatu’s war on e-tolling, "and we’ve got lots of bullets".
Teachers are marching with Cosatu, but their pupils must be in class tomorrow. Except maybe in Cape Town, where children have been invited to join in.
Provincial Minister Qedani Mahlangu says shebeens must also comply with the new Gauteng Liquor Act and will have three months to apply for a licence.
Gauteng provincial health minister Ntombi Mekgwe has promised big changes in the way the health department does business.
Gauteng’s Qedani Mahlangu said the backlog on liquor licence applications has almost been cleared and new application dates will be announced soon.
Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane says the province will focus on "accelerating delivery with a strong emphasis on concrete deliverables".
Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane has confirmed the province’s beleaguered health and social development department will be split in April.
Now crisis management gets under way as commuters demand refunds for unused tickets.
The terms and conditions signed by motorists when registering for toll road e-tags are not in line with the CPA, the consumer commissioner says.
Gauteng is set to decentralise essential services to ease the load on hospitals, and trim other budgets to service the province’s massive debt.
The e-tolling fracas in Gauteng is adding to the road agency’s unsustainable debt, and casting doubts on the government’s overall transport strategy.
The National Consumer Forum believes the e-tolling system planned for Gauteng’s highways may lead to the abuse of consumers’ rights.
Delivering a report on provincial finances, the auditor general has refused to be drawn on the move to place key departments under central control.
A total of 36 new schools will be opened in Gauteng for the 2012 academic year, according to Gauteng education minister, Barbara Creecy.
A case of culpable homicide is being investigated after a police van hit and killed two cyclists who were riding on a tandem bicycle in Kliprivier.
Provincial governments may have needed intervention, but why only now?
The Open Democracy Advice Centre has called for stricter action against senior government officials implicated in maladministration.
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<i>Mpintshi</i> volunteers are helping young people make life choices that will protect them against HIV.
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The Gauteng education department has launched an after school support initiative which stands to help thousands of pupils in underperforming schools.
Gauteng may have had to ask national government to sort out its troubled finances, but Johannesburg is rated the country’s most productive metro.
The Cabinet’s controversial decision to save three provinces from bankruptcy does not mean extra money for them, says treasury DG Lungisa Fuzile.
The treasury has ordered the government of South Africa’s wealthiest province, Gauteng, to revisit a range of prestigious mega-projects.
Pravin Gordhan says swift action will be taken against officials involved in mismanagement in three provinces placed under government’s control.