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Change is the only constant. And while it may seem that nothing much has really changed about the traditional classroom model, it is important...

For decades, South Africa has grappled with an education system that seems to promise much but deliver little. Despite commendable reforms and bursts of innovation, the country’s schools remain unequal, under-resourced, and often poorly governed. The result is a crisis that goes far deeper than declining mathematics enrolments or underperforming universities: it is a crisis of national competence.

Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela has intervened at the Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT), meeting the institution’s council and management amid renewed governance and leadership instability following the end of its administration period.

National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) acting CEO Waseem Carrim says the entity has entered a “new era of stability, governance reform and operational rebuilding” after years of turbulence, delays and governance failures that shook confidence across the higher education sector.

The principal of Samit Christian Academy, an independent school in Kempton Park, Gauteng, was killed in what police confirmed as a house robbery in the early hours of Sunday in Maokeng Extension, Tembisa.  

Director-General Mathanzima Mweli said the NSC depended on the integrity and ethical discipline of markers.

The institutions will be allowed to make representations before a final decision is taken.

Reforms must be shaped with students, not imposed on them, according to the minister.

The Pretoria High Court has dismissed the Information Regulator’s urgent bid to halt the release of the 2025 matric results, striking the application from the roll with costs in a judgment delivered on Friday.

Mobile operator Cell C has donated two new digital labs at Gamagara High School in the Northern Cape and Kagisho Combined School in the Free State.