An activist who is tired of being classified as a coloured South African is now dragging the government to scrap the separate classifications of coloured and Indian and rather to regard them as black South Africans. Glen Snyman, a teacher from Oudtshoorn and founder of People Against Race Classification (Parc), has started a lawsuit against..
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Tired of being ‘coloured’ – Coloured activist is now dragging government to court to remove the separate classification of coloured and Indian
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Matric exam disrupted by load shedding – will power failures now be blamed for poor performance among learners?
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The load shed unannounced by the bankrupt power supply led to the disruption in exam rooms where matrics had to stop their exams at dusk. Nearly 35 schools were disrupted at the same time on Wednesday’s during loadshedding and parents, teachers and pupils were outraged at the unannounced load at the most impossible time when..
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Admission lists for the registration of gr. 1- and gr. 8 pupils in 2020 at Afrikaans schools in Gauteng in chaos – no room for mother tongue education
“White children are smarter than children of color” – Teacher from prestigious private school suspended after allegedly telling this to pupils
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An Afrikaans teacher at a prestigious private school in Durban Westville was suspended after she allegedly told the children that white children are generally smarter than children of color. An investigation by the education department will determine the fate of the teacher. In 2018, an English teacher resigned to allegations that she used the offended..
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Only in SA! – 300 Primary School Teachers Fail Grade 3 English Test – 30% pass Matric rate is clearly showing
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Three hundred primary school teachers will be sent for training after they failed a Grade 3 English first additional language test. Basic Education’s Elijah Mahlangu says the department is aware English is challenging for some teachers and this should not come as a shock because English is not the home language of many teachers. The..
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State-of-the-art school in Gauteng that cost the state R248‚159‚795 stands empty
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A state-of-the-art school built for children with special needs in Gauteng stands empty.
Where there should be the sound of children playing, there is silence. Where there should be learning, there are empty classrooms. Where there should be teaching, there are blank chalkboards.
This is the situation at the Nokuthula Centre and Special School in Lyndhurst, Johannesburg. Nokuthula is a “LSEN school”, meaning it caters for “learners with special education needs”.
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Mpumalange Teachers working only two hours a day because of a teachers’ go-slow
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The education of thousands of Mpumalanga schoolchildren has ground to a near halt and exams have been postponed because of a teachers’ go-slow. For the past three weeks, teachers in the province have been coming to work for only two hours a day. Schools open at 8am and close at 10am. The protest is over..
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