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Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Siviwe Gwarube: Education department to focus on pit toilets before gender-neutral bathrooms

LGBT+ groups have accused the department of delays in adopting policies for gender identity and sexual orientation in schools

  • Umamah Bakharia
9 min read
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ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Grade 9 certificate to be rolled out at 1000 schools, but shouldn’t be seen as ‘exit option’

The general education certificate will recognise learner achievements at the end of the compulsory schooling phase

  • Umamah Bakharia
4 min read
The high court in Pretoria has granted an application by matric learner Anlé Spies, lobby group AfriForum and Maroela Media to compel the department of basic education to have last year’s matric examination results published in newspapers.
AFRIFORUM

Court rules matric results will be published in the media

Court grants AfriForum’s application to compel the department of basic education to publish matric results in newspapers and online platforms

  • Marcia Zali
2 min read
South Africa’s first paediatric vaccine trial participant received the first shot of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Education employees queue for Covid jabs, but some may have to wait a little longer

People who have had Covid-19 in the past 30 days or who have had a flu shot in the past 14 days will be vaccinated at a later date

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
More than half a million basic education-sector workers are set to receive the vaccination in the next two weeks. (Photo by ER Lombard/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Education sector prepares for mass vaccination drive to beat J&J jab expiry date

More than half a million basic education-sector workers are set to receive the vaccination in the next two weeks

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
Grade 11 learner ( who wish to remain anonymous) from Onkgopotse Tiro Combine School has resorted in assisting in building his mother’s new home to keep busy and to learn in order to prepare himself for a civil engeneering course that he wants to persue when he finished school. Without any explanation from his school, he has been sitting at home since the beggining of the lockdown even though other learners from different schools have started attending. (Oupa Nkosi)
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Farmworkers’ children forgotten

They have been unable to return to their school in North West because the hostel is closed

  • Bongekile Macupe
7 min read