Tirelong secondary school
NW Education Dept to meet with parents of Tirelong Secondary pupils
This comes after 162 pupils were abducted from their hostel at Boons Mega Farm School last Thursday by a group of people pretending to be parents.
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Arrangements made for Tirelong Secondary matrics to collect results - dept
The school has been ransacked more than five times since the beginning of lockdown, with the latest attack last month leaving classrooms uninhabitable.
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Tirelong abductions: Dept accused of duping parents into signing indemnity forms
The North West Education Department is looking into reports that over 100 pupils were abducted from a school hostel on Tuesday night.
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SAPS say they can't probe alleged abduction of 162 Tirelong pupils
The provincial Education Department claims a drunk mob, apparently the children’s parents, removed them from the Boons Mega Farm School on Tuesday night.
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NW Education Dept accused of ignoring SGB's pleas to fix Tirelong Secondary
School governing body chairperson Nkhanedzeni Mungomeni has accused the North West Education Department of making empty promises for three years to build a new school after the deterioration of Tirelong Secondary School and yet not a single brick has been laid.
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Confusion over alleged abduction of 162 children from NW school hostel
The Education Department said that it had received information that 162 children were snatched from the Boons Mega Farm School on Tuesday. The police said that no kidnapping case was opened, however, the school principal has laid a complaint of malicious damage to property.
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NW education dept condemns forceful removal of pupils from school by parents
The department’s Elias Malindi said a group of community members arrived in at least seven vehicles on Sunday and forcefully removed more than 50 pupils from Naawpoort Mega School.
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Govt officials to visit Kroondal after protests at Tirelong Secondary School
The community there protested on Wednesday and rejected government’s plans to relocate learners from the school, which was severely vandalised over the December break.
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Parents, pupils of vandalised NW school reject government's relocation plan
The school has been vandalised at least five times, with the most recent incident seeing the school robbed of electric cables, taps, roofing, books, window frames and doors.
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NW Education Dept pleads with HRC to help protect pupils' education rights
This follows a string of vandalism incidents at the Tirelong Secondary School near Rustenburg.
