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'There will still be nearly 4,000 schools with pit latrines by end of 2018'
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga says a sanitation audit conducted in May and June revealed that 3,898 schools with pit latrines only will not be reached during this financial year.
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GED to probe videos showing teacher confrontations with students
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga believes their psycho-social support services need to be improved to identify problem children early.
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More videos of learner violence emerge
Angie Motshekga has announced she is going to urgently meet with her counterparts in the departments of police and social development.
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Motshekga: Real threat to pupils’ safety is from within schools
The minister announced that the Basic Education Department would urgently meet with the ministries of Police and Social Development to discuss violence at schools.
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Motshekga: Security beefed up in Limpopo ahead of final exams
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says security has been improved in Limpopo because of exam paper leaks for two consecutive years.
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Motshekga wants urgent meeting with stakeholders over school violence
An Eastern Cape pupil was stabbed to death over a cellphone last week, while a pupil allegedly stabbed a teacher to death in the North West province.
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Motshekga slams R7.2bn cut to school infrastructure budget
The cut is part of a plan to reduce government spending by R85 billion over the next three years, mainly to help finance fee-free higher education.
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Motshekga calls for harsher sentences for people convicted of damaging schools
Motshekga says the department spends millions on repairing damaged infrastructure caused by protesters.
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[LISTEN] State of basic education in SA
Talk Radio 702’s Eusebius McKaiser talks to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga regarding how the department plans to phase in history as a compulsory subject in schools.
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Motshekga: History will help pupils deal with social issues, identity
A ministerial task team has made a number of recommendations towards making the subject compulsory for pupils between grades 10 and 12.
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'Proposal to make History compulsory not attempt to politicise classroom'
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says Africa has a rich history that should be explored in the classroom to create a generation that has a sense of pride in their heritage.
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Angie Motshekga announces budget cuts for Basic Education
The Basic Education minister said the budget vote took place in the context of ‘financial constraints’ which had led to a reduction in basic education sector funding.
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Equal Education urges Education Dept to get rid of pit toilets
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga held an urgent meeting with education officials to assess the sanitation facilities at all schools.
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Motshekga: Education Dept to prioritise school sanitation
Education Minister Angie Motshekga convened a high level meeting with education heads in Johannesburg on Thursday to come up with an urgent plan to eradicate unsafe toilets at schools.
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At least 37 schools in EC have no toilets at all
The province also has the highest number of pit toilets in the country.
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Education Dept plans to fast-track provision of safe toilets at schools
Last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa told Education Minister Angie Motshekga that she had a month to provide him with an audit on school sanitation.
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Motshekga to hold urgent meeting with MECs, HODs to eradicate pit toilets
The high level meeting comes amid the grief and outrage caused by the death of a five-year-old girl who fell into a pit toilet in the Eastern Cape last week.
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Education Dept to hold urgent meeting with provincial leaders on pit toilets
The Department of Basic Education says small children should not be unaccompanied when using dangerous pit toilets at schools.
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Ramaphosa sets deadline for removal of pit toilets at schools
The president has also instructed Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to conduct an audit of all learning facilities with unsafe structures within a month.
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Motshekga: Pit toilet child death undignified & completely unacceptable
Five-year-old Viwe Jali fell into the toilet at the Luna Primary School in Bizana on Tuesday.
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Motshekga ‘saddened’ after EC learner dies in pit toilet
Five-year-old Viwe Jali fell into the toilet at the Luna Primary School in Bizana on Tuesday.
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