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Gauteng Education Dept under pressure to deal with placements
Government is opening the Everest Primary School in Westbury as part of its plan to create more classrooms for the fast-growing number of pupils in Gauteng.
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Violence as EFF members protest outside Vereeniging school
Police have now formed a line in front of the school to stop the red berets from coming close to the parents.
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Lesufi to meet with disgruntled parents over Hoërskool Overvaal ruling
The parents threatened to burn down the school on Wednesday after judge Bill Prinsloo ruled against allowing the Afrikaans school to admit English-speaking pupils.
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Gauteng Education Dept working on school ranking system
The Gauteng Education Department says it’s working on a model to rank schools after repeated complaints by parents refusing second options of certain schools perceived as being troubled.
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Lesufi: Storm damage to cost department nearly R140 million
Several schools were damaged recently when heavy hail storms battered parts of Johannesburg and surrounding areas.
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Lesufi urges parents to monitor kids for suicidal behavior
This follows the death of two grade 11 pupils from Pretoria schools where they both committed suicide allegedly after failing their grade.
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‘Plans in place for pupils writing exams amid possible taxi strike’
MEC Panyaza Lesufi says this strike is planned at a critical time when many pupils are writing their year-end exams.
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[WATCH] 'Criminals play somewhere else, not in our schools'
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi engaged with Gauteng scholar patrollers following allegations of sexual assault of 87 girls by a school guard at a school in Soweto.
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Lesufi warns communities against using schools to settle scores
The Human Rights Commission is holding the four-day process in Johannesburg following ongoing disruptions sparked by the appointment of a black principal.
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Parents furious over Orlando school’s handling of sexual harassment matter
At least 54 pupils were allegedly assaulted by a school patroller at an Orlando East school.
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Loaded gun confiscated from grade 2 pupil in Brakpan
Police took the gun which belongs to the child's father and are now investigating.
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Lesufi calls for random searches at East Rand school after violent pupil's fight
Lesufi has assured pupils that security measures have been put in place to ensure they're safe and that there are no more disruptions to learning and teaching.
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MEC Lesufi given R40 billion to improve GP education
The MEC says he will focus on the acceleration of proper education and building more infrastructure to create a conducive environment for learning.
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230,000 Gauteng parents have used online admissions process for 2018
The Gauteng Education Department says more than 10 popular schools have already reached full capacity and can no longer accept applications.
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[WATCH] 2018 online school applications open in Gauteng
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi and Premier David Makhura officially launched the 2018 online admissions for grades 1 & 8.
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Lesufi: GDE working to resolve glitches with 2018 registration portal
Within the first few minutes, 16,000 parents logged onto the portal to apply for their children to be placed at their preferred schools.
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Bronkhorstspruit crash: ‘Dept to wait for probe results before laying blame’
MEC Panyaza Lesufi says the department will not lay any blame in the Bronkhorstspruit minibus accident before the exact cause of the crash is released.
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Lesufi: Grade 1 and 8 learner enrolment to open in May
The MEC says learner enrolment will commence on 2 May 2017 and the placement period for pupils at schools is set to happen between July and September.
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MEC Lesufi condemns KES bullying incident
A bullying video involving four King Edward VII School learners has been circulated on social media.
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Motshekga: Make reading a habit
The basic education minister & MEC Panyaza Lesufi are conducting a road show in the Midrand area.
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Panyaza praises dept for reducing school placement numbers
MEC Panyaza Lesufi says as of Tuesday, 3900 grade 1 pupils and 3,000 grade 8s who applied online were still without schools.
