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Parents still required to pay school fees during lockdown
Schools were forced to close following the surge in coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the country with the department having to introduce E-learning at home during this period.
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COVID-19: Could the school year be lost for SA pupils?
Schools were closed across the country last Wednesday with government tentatively announcing they would re-open after Easter.
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Basic Education Dept's interventions on coronavirus
Below is the statement from the Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, on her department’s coronavirus-related interventions.
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DBE: COVID-19 guidelines created to minimise disruptions to schools
The department released guidelines on how schools and their communities can manage and contain COVID-19. There are 16 confirmed cases of the disease in South Africa.
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Motshekga warns schools against using own protocols over COVID-19 fears
The minister was responding to questions following the closure of the Grayston Preparatory School in Sandton earlier on Monday.
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'Disgusted' King Zwelithini lashes out at comprehensive sex ed in schools
The king said the curriculum was ill-informed and it was being imposed on children and their parents without their consent.
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Teams dispatched after pupil's fatal fall from school building in Randburg
It's understood the pupil suffered an epileptic seizure and accidentally fell from a balcony.
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Dept offers an alternative to Klapmuts Primary, parents refuse it
Earlier this week, parents staged a sit-in followed by a meeting with the school after demanding their children be placed at this specific school.
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Motshekga calls for thorough probe after 2 pupils die in drowning incidents
The Department of Basic Education on Monday sent its condolences to the families of Enoch Mpianzi and Keamogetswe 'Keamo' Seboko who died in separate drowning incidents last week.
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MPs happy with 2019 matric results
Basic Education Committee chairperson Bongiwe Mbinqo Gigaba said that they were happy with the results and wanted the department to sustain the improvement well into the future.
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Matric class of 2019 achieves 81.3% pass rate
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said the class of 2019 had breached the 80% threshold for the first time.
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DBE pleased with successful matric exams as it finalises results
Basic Education Department Minister Angie Motshekga is due to announced the national results for the class of 2019 next week Tuesday, while individual results will be available at schools the following day.
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Education Dept refutes claims it was insensitive towards Michael Komape’s family
Last week, the SCA ordered the department to pay R1.4 million in damages to the five-year-old boy’s family.
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Lesufi ‘satisfied’ with progress of online admission placements for 2020
The Gauteng Education MEC announced that about 27,000 parents failed to provide the correct documents in their children's applications before the 30 November deadline.
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ANALYSIS: Sex education raises questions about the role of the state in SA
Objections raised about the school syllabus by parents, schools and civil society point to a bigger problem with the state.
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Life Orientation seeks to empower children against sex predators - dept
The Basic Education Department has strongly rejected what it's described as the deliberate misrepresentation of facts regarding some of it's content in the Life Orientation subject.
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Bloemhof matrics transported to safe exam centres following violent protests
The provincial Department of Basic Education said matrics would stay at the centre until the end of the exams next month.
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MPs urged to hold DBE to account for failure to provide transport, sanitation
Parliament’s Basic Education committee was on Tuesday briefed by the Equal Education Law Centre on their state of education report.
