Back to school 2020
LIVE BLOG: Some schools remain closed as they are not ready
Classrooms will again be filled with children in schools across the country as the first batch return on 8 June after months at home.
Social media expert Emma Sadleir said one innocent picture could expose confidential information about your children.
She says pupil enrolment in the province has been growing at an average of 18,000 learners per year which is making provisioning difficult.
Parents whose children are yet to be placed in schools across Gauteng are pleading with Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi to bring back the manual registration system. Parents who stood in long queues on Wednesday said their children were now bearing the burden of a failing system. #BackToSchool #PanyazaLesufi #Education
South African schools opened for the academic year on 15 January 2020. At this school, there were more happy faces than the usual tears. #BackToSchool #Education #SouthAfrica
While thousands of learners started and returned to school on Wednesday, there were still pupils who had not been placed.
Hundreds of thousands of pupils are heading to classrooms across South Africa for the first day of the 2020 school year.
One parent said the online application process had made life difficult and that the Gauteng Department of Education seemed to have tried to fix a system that was not broken.
Principal Aleem Abrahams, his teachers and parents have had enough of violence, substance abuse and poor school infrastructure.
The start of the new school year is thrilling for many who will walk the school's corridors for the first time on Wednesday.
The Education Department had been struggling to place some pupils due to late registration, outstanding documents and other issues.
More than 1.1 million learners start or return to schools in the province on Wednesday.
Many of the parents said that they only received confirmation from the Education Department on where their children had been placed on Tuesday morning.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has urged parents who have not accepted their placement offers to do so by midnight. The department says it will open late registrations on 15 January and Lesufi anticipates a high volume of late applications. Late registration will close on 25 January.