Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is announcing the results of the 2020 national senior certificate examination results.
The leak of the Maths Paper 2 and Physical Science Paper 2 exams brought the integrity of the 2020 National Senior Certificate exams into question.
Learners in public schools In January, the department announced a two-week delay in the school calendar following an increase of COVID-19 cases in the country.
The Basic Education Department has received reports from destitute parents saying that they could not register their children because they could not afford school fees.
Teachers around the country were grieving the loss of colleagues while anxiously preparing for the return of pupils amid the second wave of COVID-19.
Lesufi visited Helpmekaar Kollege in Johannesburg earlier following reports that the independent school would be operating on Monday in contravention of the new guidelines.
The DA said instead of halting schools for two weeks, the department should use the time to equip schools with proper COVID-19 resources.
More than 300,000 assistants were recruited nationally to start work from December to March this year as part of government's R7 billion project.
Treasury says provinces must pay teacher assistants who weren't paid December salaries, but the national Basic Education Department says Treasury made funds available.
South Africans will be eagerly waiting to hear what Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has to say when she addresses the nation on Friday around her department’s plans to reopen schools.
Naptosa's executive director, Basil Manuel, said that education unions would be meeting with the Basic Education Department this week to track progress ahead of the reopening of schools, slated for 27 January.
The matric marking process rolls into the second week today, where more than 45,000 assessors have been hard at work at 177 centres nationwide.
The Basic Education Department has appointed more than 145,000 markers who will be stationed at over 180 centres across the country.
To avoid further delays and disruptions to the 2020 academic year, the department officially confirmed that there will be no rewrite next week.
Last week Minister Angie Motshekga announced that maths paper 2 and physical science paper 2 would be rewritten on the 15th and 17th of December after being irrevocably compromised.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is briefing the media on the progress of the matric examinations.
Education MEC Panayza Lesufi said out of the 220,000 applications received, only 181,000 have been approved.
The minister convened an urgent Council of Education Ministers meeting on Wednesday morning after it was reported that the matric Mathematics Paper Two exam was leaked this week.
