Charmaine Ndlela
The Mpumalanga Department of Education said on Sunday it was monitoring developments after the arrests of 23 people, including senior government officials, in a R114 million corruption case involving the department.
“As the matter is now before the courts, the department respects the judicial process and regards the case as sub judice. The department will therefore refrain from commenting on the merits of the case at this stage, while closely monitoring all developments,” it said.
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Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has urged parents and schools to use home languages as a foundation for learning.
“A child’s mother tongue language should never be a barrier to learning. It should be a bridge,” Gwarube said.
“Learners struggle not because they lack the ability, but because they are being taught in a language they do not fully understand,” she said in a personal message broadcast from her X account in commemoration of International Mother Language Day on Saturday.
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DBE says most learners lose mother tongue schooling after Grade 3
The Department of Basic Education said on Saturday it is expanding Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education (MTbBE), warning that fewer than a quarter of South Africans can access sustained mother tongue education beyond Grade 3.
The department made the remarks in a statement commemorating International Mother Language Day.
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