Gauteng education
Lesufi launches probe into suspected food poisoning incident at Tshwane school
Over 200 pupils from the MH Baloyi Secondary School in Winterveld were rushed to hospital on Wednesday after experiencing stomach cramps.
Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has praised the matric class of 2020 for their performance in the exams during the COVID-19 pandemic, at a special event in Johannesburg earlier on Wednesday.
In an unpresented school year - hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and several lockdowns - Lesufi said it was a tough time for teachers, parents and pupils.
Mpianzi (13) drowned at a Parktown Boys’ High School camp for grade 8 pupils in January.
Education officials have launched the system at the Diepsloot Youth Centre on Monday morning.
The robbers were handcuffed at a store in the Johannesburg CBD where the stolen items were being sold.
Notices for a hearing were issued to the pupils for alleged dress code infringements and disregard for instructions over their failure to ask permission to wear their hijabs.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has condemned an act of violence by an Eldorado Park secondary school pupil who allegedly drew a gun on his teacher.
Lesufi says through the testimonies by pupils at the school, at least three more teachers were implicated in allegations of sexual assault and racism.
A man was arrested for the robbery on Saturday near the school when security guards on the premises responded to the alarm.
The MEC was responding to a report that around 119 schools which were either Afrikaans medium or dual-medium have been changed to English.
Panyaza Lesufi says it’s time for our society to identify language policies as nothing more than crude forms of racism.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi was at the Protea magistrates court where a 57-year-old man appeared for sexually assaulting more than 80 school girls at a Soweto primary school.
A statement on the department’s letterhead and the MEC’s signature was circulated earlier this week stating that schools will reopen on the 16th.
Organisers are hoping at least 28 schools will join the protest in solidarity with their counterparts at Klipspruit West Secondary School in Soweto.