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Mud and water inside a school in KwaZulu-Natal following heavy rain and floods in the province in April 2022. Picture: @NATIONALTEACHE2/Twitter

Basic education minister angie motshekga

Motshekga urges KZN communities, parents, teachers to help school clean-up ops

By Dominic Majola

The minister visited affected schools in the province to assess the extent of damage caused by the devastating floods that destroyed school infrastructure.

  • FILE: Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Basic Education Minister Motshekga explains SA's huge grade 10 dropout rate

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said that her department was trying to address this with the help of departments like social development.

    73 days ago
  • Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga hosted the top achievers at a breakfast session at the Houghton Hotel on 20 January 2021. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Motshekga urges teachers, pupils to get jabbed, as full-time schooling returns

    Children will be heading back on a full-time basis after last week's Cabinet decision ended rotational learning.

    104 days ago
  • Pupils at a Gauteng school line up for the first day of school on 12 January 2022. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Children will return to normal school hours as of 7 February - dept

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motsheka will gazette the changes to school timetables, which means rotational school learning will come to an end.

    108 days ago
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    Return to daily classes welcomed but questions remain on overcrowded schools

    The new regulations were gazetted overnight, bringing an end to rotational learning in schools after almost two years.

    110 days ago
  • Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga hosted the top achievers at a breakfast session at the Houghton Hotel on 20 January 2021. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Basic Education Dept outlining ways for sector to rebound from COVID pandemic

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said that they were lobbying for schools to return to full operation.

    115 days ago
  • Motshekga: Phomolong teacher was not shot by pupil that failed matric

    Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, along with Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi, visited Phomolong Secondary School in Thembisa on 25 January 2022. The visit comes after the school's deputy principal Thembisile Ngendane was shot and killed as she was leaving the school last week.

    116 days ago
  • Slain Phumolong Secondary School deputy principal, Thembisile Ngendane. Picture: Supplied

    Minister Motshekga expected to visit family of slain Phomolong deputy principal

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said that she knew and had previously met Thembisile Ngendane during a visit to the Tembisa school.

    117 days ago
  • Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga hosted the matric top achievers at a breakfast session at the Houghton Hotel on 20 January 2021. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Most matric bachelor passes came from KZN, Gauteng - Motshekga

    The number of matric candidates who have qualified for admission to bachelor studies at universities has gone up by 21.4% from the previous year.

    121 days ago
  • Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga hosted the matric top achievers at a breakfast session at the Houghton Hotel on 20 January 2021. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Minster Motshekga urges teachers, school staff to get COVID vaccine booster jab

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said that all hands needed to be on deck as this year's matric class continues to face pandemic speed bumps.

    121 days ago
  • Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga hosted the matric top achievers at a breakfast session at the Houghton Hotel on 20 January 2021. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Motshekga: Matric classes of 2020, 2021 have produced the best quality passes

    The 2021 National Senior Certificate overall pass rate stands at 76.4%, an improvement of 0.2% from 2020.

    121 days ago
  • Education Minister Angie Motshekga hosted some of the country's top matric pupils from the Class of 2021 at a breakfast in Houghton, Johannesburg on 20 January 2021. Picture: Masechaba Sefularo/Eyewitness News

    Motshekga thanks matric top achievers for hard work under COVID conditions

    About 30 matric pupils and their guardians were invited to breakfast with Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga in Houghton, Johannesburg on Thursday morning.

    121 days ago
  • Pupils at a Gauteng school line up for the first day of school on 12 January 2022. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Basic Education Dept confident Gauteng pupil placement backlog will be cleared

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said that over the next few days officials would be able to see where children without schools could be placed.

    129 days ago
  • Teachers,parents and pupils arrive for the first day of school at Norwood Primary in Johannesburg on 12 January 2022. Picture: Dominic Majola/Eyewitness News

    Motshekga appeals to parents for patience as schools place pupils

    The Basic Education Department is hoping to clear the backlog in Gauteng by the end of this week when it will be able to see where there are openings.

    130 days ago
  • Picture: @DBE_SA/Twitter

    As inland schools return, rotational learning set to continue

    Rotational learning is continuing at some schools because of a lack of space and capacity to abide by COVID-19 protocols which includes social distancing.

    130 days ago
  • Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. Picture: @DBE_SA/Twitter

    Motshekga calls for social distancing at schools to be reduced

    The Basic Education minister said that while children were back in the classroom in inland provinces, negotiations were continuing to reduce the COVID-19 regulations in schools, requiring children to be separated by up to a meter.

    130 days ago
  • Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. Picture: @DBE_SA/Twitter

    Motshekga: Dept exploring ways of returning schooling to normality amid pandemic

    Schools in inland provinces reopen on Wednesday, while pupils in the rest of the country go back to class from next week.

    130 days ago
  • FILE: Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga. Picture: GCIS

    WATCH LIVE: Minister Motshekga briefs media on reopening of schools

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is briefing the media on the reopening of schools for the 2022 academic year.

    131 days ago
  • Picture: @ECDOEZA/Twitter

    With vaccines available, teachers hope to see more pupils back in class

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is expected to hold a media briefing on Tuesday morning regarding the opening of schools for this year.

    131 days ago
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