Goverment on Wednesday launched its mass vaccination drive for educators, staff and school governing body personnel to receive their single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
It's understood that the shooting happened at Buyani Primary in Finetown on Friday morning.
The department has received R135 million less compared to the previous year.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi met with management of the private school on Monday morning after a standoff between parents and teachers over allegations of racism and unfair treatment of black pupils.
South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago's daughter goes to the school. For the past week, parents have been protesting at the school, where pupils had been calling for significant transformation after claims that black children were discriminated against.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi met with management of the private school on Monday morning after a standoff between parents and teachers over allegations of racism and unfair treatment of black pupils.
As the first day of phase two of the government’s national vaccine rollout plan draws to an end, focus is now turning to plans to bolster the vaccination drive.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has condemned the behaviour of disgruntled parents at Laerskool Theresapark in Pretoria, after they forcefully removed the principal from her office.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi visited the Northriding Secondary School on Friday following an altercation between a white teacher and a black learner.
In a video that has been widely shared, a grade 12 pupil can be seen attacking another before being stopped by a group of pupils.
The allegations were levelled against Lesufi after a recording of an alleged “secret meeting” where he apparently insinuated he could bend rules on tender processes.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said that while the province accepted the results released by the quality assurance body, it failed to acknowledge the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic on matrics.
The Gauteng government is on Wednesday holding a special event in Johannesburg today to honour the class of 2020 for their performance in the national senior certificate exams.
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.
The first day of the 2021 academic calendar saw more than 2 million pupils return to the classroom in Gauteng.
On the first day of the 2021 academic year, pupils from Abram Hlophe Primary School in Katlehong arrived to a revamped school. Gauteng Premier David Makhura, Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi and other dignitaries handed over the school on 15 February 2021.
One South Africa leader Mmusi Maimane posed questions to Lesufi via Twitter, calling for him to be as transparent as he usually purports to be on the schools deep clean controversy.
Four hundred and thirty million rand was used to decontaminate schools while they were closed off in a bid to curb the spread of the pandemic. Lesufi admitted on 702 that he only became aware of this when a journalist requested information.
