The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) will now introduce English and Afrikaans as the language of teaching and learning in township schools, in an effort to accommodate displaced learners in this province. This is a statement by the GDE on Tuesday. According to this, the department will help schools that received few enrollments for 2020..
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Lesufi stirring havoc! Gauteng Department of Education might place Afrikaans learners in township schools
No wonder Lesufi wants to place pupils in Afrikaans schools – Gauteng Education accused of failing pupils by allowing ‘shocking’ school conditions
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Monday said the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) was failing pupils by allowing poor conditions to persist in schools. The DA’s shadow MEC for infrastructure development and property management in the province, Alan Fuchs, made the statement following an oversight visit to the Apex Primary School in Lenasia. Fuchs visited..
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Celebration surrounding the first private school in Vosloorus may be short-lived, as it is operating illegally
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The Star reports that according to Gauteng department of education spokesperson Steve Mabona, The Ayanda Junior Academy has no licence as its registration application was declined in April last year. “The process of registration takes 90 days when the application is compliant and because this school did not comply, they received a letter declining their..
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Afrikaans speaking parents should register their children as soon as possible online at Afrikaans schools for 2020
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The FF Plus wants to remind and encourage Afrikaans parents to register their children at Afrikaans schools from 08:00 on the 20th of May 2019. The Gauteng Department of Education has an online system that parents can use to do so. It is important to do this seeing as the system and the regulations according..
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What on earth is wrong with the youth of today:- Mobile classrooms burnt in protest over delayed repairs at Joburg school, the same same school where they burned the mobile classroom
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Mobile classrooms were set alight on Monday morning at Oakdale Secondary School in Ennerdale, in the south of Joburg. Among other demands, the community has been frustrated over delays to repairs to the school’s roof, which was damaged during a storm last year. The roof damage affected four classrooms. Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi was..
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Police and and Gauteng Department of Education officials held hostage by the community in protest for new school
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Frustrated parents and community members in Roodepoort, decided to take the law in to their hands after being let down by the GDE on numerous occasions. Roodepoort Police and Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) officials were recently held hostage by furious parents and community members from Durban Deep at the Durban Deep Primary School. Apparently,..
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Can we prevent another school tragedy from happening? Hoërskool Roodepoort ‘is a danger zone’ on the West Rand Eight classrooms in a three-storey building at the school are unusable, with sagging and cracked concrete slabs
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Barely a week after a walkway at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark collapsed killing four pupils, a union is warning of a disaster waiting to happen at another Gauteng school. The Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie (SAOU) said eight classrooms in a three-storey building at Hoërskool Roodepoort were unusable, with sagging and cracked concrete slabs. The trade union said..
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Does MEC for Education really have our children’s best interests at heart – Lesufi is going to leave 14 000 learners stranded- Latest action by the department is contrary to the Constitution which clearly states that every person has the right to basic education
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The FF Plus was shocked to learn that the Gauteng Department of Education announced earlier on 15 January 2019, that learners who still do not have a place at a school only have until this Friday 18 January 2019, to accept the placements offered by the Department. This threat serves as proof that the MEC..
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parents are livid in Gauteng, due to that the schools have reached it’s capacity
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The Gauteng Department of Education will go through the process of placing more than 700 students.
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New sex education exercise perhaps? – Video of female pupil doing a lap dance on a male pupil are spreading like a wild fire
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The Gauteng Department of Education has expressed concern after a video surfaced of a pupil performing what appears to be a lap dance on another learner inside a classroom. Scores of learners can be seen loudly egging the teenager on as she performs the lewd dance routine on a male pupil. According to the department,..
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Pictures and videos emerges of Principal having sex with pupils in his office
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The Gauteng Department of Education has confirmed that the principal of Reiger Park high school in Boksburg has handed in his resignation after videos and pictures of him having sex with pupils in his office emerged on social media. The Gauteng Basic Education Department has strongly condemned any acts of sexual misconduct in schools and..
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