Tempers flared outside the school gates on Tuesday after a handful of EFF members arrived and were refused entry. But the pupils involved have said they do not want things to get out of hand. Police were called to the school twice and several armed response security vehicles were parked nearby as the thwarted group,..
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EFF members have threatened a “radical and militant” shutdown of Riebeek College Girls’ High School in Uitenhage amid allegations of racism that have rocked the prestigious school
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Schools in SA are lawless institutions serving as training centers for criminals and not for educational purposes
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Only a few incidents that received attention last month are a pupil who performed a lapdance at the Sikhululekile Secondary School in Pretoria, racist pupils of the Genl. Smuts High School in Vereeniging, who last Friday spoke against white teachers and refused to attend classes, pupils involved in gang fighting and a Eldorado Park Secondary..
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It is shocking to know that according to Stats SA, more than 120 000 school pupils gave birth last year
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The department of education says these figures are shocking, especially regarding how young the pupils are According to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), more than 120 000 school pupils gave birth last year. As stated in the Recorded Live Births 2017 report released by Stats SA, there are 3 261 girls between the ages of..
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Sex education taken too far – 27 Pupils At Limpopo High School Pregnant
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The Limpopo Basic Education Department says its concerned that 27 pupils at the Molautsi Secondary School situated just outside Polokwane are pregnant. Fourteen of them are in grade 12. Earlier this month, Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa visited an 18-year-old who’d given birth to triplets at Seshego Hospital. Both she and the father of the..
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VIDEO: Footage of assault at local primary school shocks parents
Parents threaten to burn down school after snake spits on pupil
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Parents have threatened to burn down a northern KwaZulu-Natal school on Thursday morning after a snake allegedly spat in the face of a Grade 2 pupil.
Less than four days after parents met with education officials to discuss the “snake problem” and poor infrastructure at Dundee Junior Secondary School on Sunday‚ a child had to be rushed to the local hospital after the alleged snake attack.
“The snakes are coming from the neighbouring property‚ which is an unkempt bush. At the meeting we were told that the municipality would clear the plot and bill the owner – but obviously that did not happen‚” the school’s governing body chairman Gift Gaysman told TimesLive.
He said that there were no previous snake attacks at the school‚ but that several of the slithery reptiles have been spotted under prefab class rooms‚ which were warm.
He said parents‚ who had already protested at the school several times over the last few weeks‚ were angry that a child was injured.
Basic Education Department – No repeat year for pupils under 10
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Pupils under the age of 10 years could soon “cruise through” their foundation phase without repeating a grade, if the new “learner progression” plan being mooted by the Department of Basic Education goes ahead.
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga recently said in Parliament that expert opinion suggested it was not beneficial for pupils in the lower grades, between the ages of 6 and 10, to repeat a grade.
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Basic education failures, 20 – 25 year olds still sitting in school
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In the “old days” children left school at the age of 18 or 19 years. Some pupils left matric or st.10 at age 17 and went to work or study.
Now the situation is that “pupils” between the ages of 20 and 25 are still sitting at the school desks, and this is confirmed by the Eastern Cape MEC of Education, Mandla Makupula
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Dodgy viennas send more than 400 Eastern Cape children to hospital
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A food poisoning outbreak at an Eastern Cape school has seen 430 pupils rushed to hospital.
On Thursday‚ an additional 180 pupils were taken to the St Barnabas Hospital following the food poisoning spell that hit Ndamase Senior Secondary School in Ngqeleni.
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‘Sex-For-Marks’ Scandal Rocks Eastern Cape School
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Angry parents have shut down a school in the Eastern Cape in the wake of a scandal in which schoolgirls were extorted for sex in exchange for passing the year, and which left one schoolgirl pregnant.
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The African way – 50 pupils in taxi with room for 15
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A driver who transported 50 pupils in a 15-seat taxi was arrested in the Eastern Cape.
The 33-year-old taxi driver was caught in KwaDwesi, Port Elizabeth at about 07:00 on Wednesday, with more than three times the legal number of occupants in his taxi.
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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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