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Parliament’s education portfolio committee on Sunday hosted public hearings in Brakpan on the draft Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill, also known as the Bela Bill.

Registration for the Department of Basic Education’s Second Chance Matric Programme will close on 8 February 2023.

MPs in the National Assembly voted in favour of adopting the Constitution's 18th Amendment Bill to make Sign the 12th official language.

The principal is one of six teachers in the Eastern Cape currently under investigation by the department for use of corporal punishment

Calendar's Etc. listings for the week of May 5-11 include Cinco de Mayo celebrations throughout Central Florida and the Mount Dora Taste & Craft Beer Fest.

The Eastern Cape Department of Education is investigating at least six teachers at different schools for assault and corporal punishment.

Lobby group Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre have called for urgent intervention in the KwaZulu-Natal school nutrition programme and have urged the Department of Basic Education to move quickly with its probe into the programme.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says there have been historic problems with school feeding schemes, not just in KwaZulu-Natal.

3 May 2023 Joint statement: Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre call for urgent intervention to resolve the collapse of the National School Nutrition Programme in KwaZulu-Natal and restore learners’ access to food at school “It is very difficult to focus in class when you are hungry as we are used to getting food…

The Umalusi Council has extended its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Professor Daniel Kgwadi, the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) Vice Chancellor, who passed away on Sunday.