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In an urgent application brought before the Johannesburg high court, the Equal Education Law Centre wants the right to early childhood development (ECD) to become part of the right to a basic education.

Gauteng education department has ‘no duty’ to provide ECD centres

The Equal Education Law Centre has launched an application against the department over its failure to provide education to children affected by last year’s Usindiso fire

Johannesburg council chief whip Sithembiso Zungu and two others were injured in the shooting. (Papi Morake/Gallo Images)

Gauteng education department to limit access to schools after two shot dead

A Rand Water executive and his bodyguard were killed in a shooting the Zakariyya Park community hall where a school donation function was taking place

Gauteng schools feel the pressure to place more than 700 000 primary and secondary school pupils.

Thousands of learners await placement for 2023 school year

Gauteng schools feel the pressure to place more than 700 000 primary and secondary school pupils

Profits stripped from companies in unlawful R431m Gauteng schools tender

The Special Tribunal has granted the Special Investigating Unit’s request to recover monies for irregular contracts to decontaminate schools of the coronavirus

Teachers, lodge were negligent in Mpianzi’s death — report

Detailing the terror of children struggling without lifejackets after their rafts broke apart, the report said that teachers were distracted and contributed to the death of a…

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. (Oupa Nkosi)

Lesufi back in education a day after being sworn-in as finance MEC

Gauteng Premier David Makhura bows to pressure inside and outside the ANC, returning Lesufi to his former post

Parents of unregistered students queuing outside the department of basic education (Lauren Dold/M&GG)

Too late to register children for school on Wednesday — Lesufi

Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says parents attempting to register their children today will not be successful

Editorial: Corruption in politics and business kills people (Photo Archive)

Editorial: New school rules rule

These regulations will give preferential rights to pupils to attend the school closest to them, no matter whether they apply first or last

The Gauteng education department believes its new school scheme will prevent tensions over admissions, such as the protest at Hoërskool Overvaal. (Felix Dlangamandla/Netwerk24/Gallo Images)

This is how feeder zones will work

Schools must accept the nearest pupils first, regardless of their language or ability to pay

‘Let us be bold and accept our responsibility for instilling discipline and morality in our children,’ argue the writers.(Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Instil discipline in schools but don’t break the pupils

Discipline in schools is about authority and leadership

Lesufi has given the 2?067 schools in Gauteng, which are distributed between 15 feeder zones, 30 days to dispute the announcement. (Sandile Ndlovu/Sowetan)

Gauteng school feeder zones expanded to 30km

Feeder zones are the geographical areas from which a school admits learners

Midnight deadline for Gauteng school applications

Midnight deadline for Gauteng school applications

Applications through the online admissions system opened on April 16 and will close at midnight on Tuesday morning

Medical specialist Kevin Rebe said the Parktown Boys High’s policy was “probably outdated and not based on the latest evidence”.

Parktown Boys’ teacher to be held accountable for alleged racist rant

An art teacher, who has resigned from the school, allegedly threatened to blow up the boarding house and referred to his pupils as monkeys

Midnight deadline for Gauteng school applications

More than 11 000 pupils yet to be placed in Western Cape schools

"About 130 000 learners from other provinces and 2 000 learners from other countries have relocated to the Western Cape"

Top Nehawu officials Fikile Slovo Majola

Gauteng education committee calls for fewer disruptions in 2018

Mpisi encouraged parents and communities to effective learning and teaching throughout the year, by not participating in disruptive activities.

It’s Africa’s turn to go to the moon.

Number of pupils awaiting placement in Gauteng schools reduced by 20 000

Those anxiously waiting to be placed at schools include 7 092 pupils whose parents applied online.

Bright sparks: A teacher from the Spark school in Bramley helps a young learner. Students from different socioeconomic backgrounds in South Africa — especially in Gauteng — are ­increasingly flocking to independent schools.

Boom in low-fee private schools

The rapidly expanding middle class wants a better education for their children.

Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has allegedly failed to act against some people who reportedly knew about the financial irregularities at the school.

MEC stalls over high school funds row

Parents claim Panyaza Lesufi is ignoring some of the findings of two damning auditors’ reports.

The first expectant girls in Pretoria School were enrolled in the 1980s

Dozens of Thembelihle kids not in school yet

About 40 Thembelihle children have not been admitted to schools yet, which parents have blamed on the Gauteng education department’s incompetency.

The SANDF has withdrawn all charges against Lieutenant Colonel Christine Anderson and the co-accused who were indicted for colluding in the landing of a private jet at a Gupta family wedding in 2013.

‘Attacks on black pupils must end’

Parents take to the streets to protest against a school’s decision to only admit Afrikaans pupils.