Limpopo’s department of education has told parents, teachers and schools in the flood-hit Vhembe and Mopani districts not to reopen schools on Wednesday, warning that heavy rains have created dangerous conditions and disrupted key services, including school meals and scholar transport.
The Economic Freedom Fighters Youth Command (EFFYC) has launched its Sizofunda Ngenkani (We will learn by any means necessary) campaign across universities and TVET colleges, calling on the education sector to ensure that schooling is delivered against all odds.
Education authorities and opposition politicians have urged public schools not to withhold report cards over unpaid school fees, after complaints that some pupils ended the 2025 academic year without knowing whether they had progressed to the next grade.
Education experts and teachers are calling on parents to become more involved in their children’s academic lives, stressing that parental support plays a decisive role in a learner’s performance, confidence and long-term success.
South Africa's largest teachers' union has condemned some schools for barring underperforming students from sitting final-year exams, ostensibly in an effort to inflate pass rates.
KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Sipho Hlomuka said his department had accepted findings by the Special Investigating Unit into an irregular R2.5 million contract for chemical toilets at schools, and that disciplinary proceedings would be implemented against the implicated employees. Â
South Africa has entered a new phase in its higher-education reform effort, with the Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET) new recognition policy allowing private institutions that meet strict criteria to be formally designated as universities or university colleges.
Basic education minister Siviwe Gwarube on Monday warned that failing to invest sufficiently in early childhood development would saddle the country with years of costly remedial work and squandered human potential, as she launched a new outcomes-based fund for early learning.
