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WC schools are oversubscribed for 2023, so where do pupils go? - Naptosa
Refilwe Moloto speaks to Yasierah Adonis, Naptosa Western Cape provincial chairperson, about the challenges parents are experiencing with schools being over...
Basic Education Minister Angie Motsheka will gazette the changes to school timetables, which means rotational school learning will come to an end.
This comes as the Department of Basic Education revealed in Parliament earlier this month that over 130,000 babies were delivered to girls aged between 10 and 19 in public health facilities last year.
The department on Sunday said it would be facilitating the administration of COVID-19 jabs to pupils who are 18 years and older across the province’s schools.
Northern Cape schools have recorded more than 500 new cases over the past week while Eastern Cape schools have seen 400 new infections.
Zikalala briefed the media on Sunday amid an exponential increase in the number of infections in the province.
Concerns have been raised over new coronavirus cases in the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape centres of learning and teaching.
On Saturday, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said that the sector was ready to reopen schools depending on what President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his address on Sunday night.
Motshekga was on Saturday speaking in Pretoria on the state on readiness for the reopening of schools for the third academic term.
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The Western Cape Education Department on Thursday said that the 2022 school admissions process had not yet been concluded and is urging parents to be patient and calm.
From 26 July, pupils from grade R to 7 including those from schools for children with special needs will be returning to classes under the traditional timetable.
The nationwide anti-bullying campaign kicked off in Orange Farm on Friday ahead Of Child Protection Week, which runs from 31 May to 7 June, aimed at preventing the violent cycle of bullying in schools.
It’s understood that hundreds of companies that appeared to have had no expertise or prior experience in the cleaning industry benefitted from the projects.
The sector is calling on citizens to adhere to all health and safety protocols as the country experiences a surge in infections.
The department said that one of the biggest challenges it faced during the hard lockdown was the fact that no construction could take place.
The organisation is returning to the High Court in three weeks’ time to continue its fight for safe, dignified and sanitary school toilets in Limpopo.
The changes have been gazetted.
Motshekga has weighed in after a video emerged of a teacher forcefully combing pupils’ hair prior to them entering a school.