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President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Ramaphosa’s impending signing of Bela bill is ‘school capture’

The president is set to sign the Bill into law on Friday, which has heightened the threat of legal action from detractors

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Western Cape education says no teacher retrenchments despite loss of 2,400 jobs due to budget cuts

The department’s R2.5 billion budget cut, impacting administration, curriculum, and infrastructure, leaves it with a R3.8 billion shortfall over the next three years

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Soweto teacher dismissed for the alleged repeated rape of a learner

The learner was 13 when the alleged rapes started, and they continued for two years until she asked to be moved to another school

The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has ordered the Gauteng department of education to reinstate Parktown Boys’ High School principal Malcolm Williams. (Image via Facebook)

Parktown Boys’ principal to be reinstated after losing job over Enock Mpianzi’s death

Gauteng department of education says it is disappointed with the education bargaining counsel’s order to reinstate Malcolm Williams

This week teacher unions called for the closure of schools until after the Covid-19 infection rate had peaked.

Teacher unions know their power — and how to use it

After unions demanded that schools be closed this week, the department has said it is the cabinet’s prerogative to decide whether schools should close

Turnaround: Education Minister Angie Motshekga expresses her delight at the Eastern Cape’s improved matric results. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Eastern Cape intervention gets results

After years of under-performance, the province has shown that things can change for the better

‘Motshoane was employed in a position of trust as a principal and that the department had entrusted him with the safety of the pupils’

No job for sex predator principal

The former headmaster of a Gauteng school has lost his fight in the labour court to be reinstated

Raising quality

<strong>Nicola Jenvey</strong> reports on an initiative to put technology into school classrooms.

Higher salaries to come for teachers

Proposals are on the table to increase the salary scale of teachers substantially, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said on Monday. Speaking in Cape Town after a meeting of the…