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July 10, 2022
Gauteng and the Western Cape are expected to find school placements for late arrivals from neighbouring provinces and countries every year. A proposed Basic Education Law Bill amendment may authorise placements with minimal consultation.
June 21, 2022
South Africa's education legislation lacks teeth when it comes to regulating the misconduct and incompetence of some of our educators in the public basic education system. We need legislative amendments to regulate their performance so that our child
June 14, 2022
A review of legislation governing basic education will change the way language policies are navigated at schools. A draft law pushing for multilingualism has not been universally welcomed.
June 14, 2022
The Johannesburg High Court will today hear a case that seeks to show leniency in the sanctions imposed on teachers who still use corporal punishment in schools, 26 years after it was outlawed in South Africa.
May 19, 2022
Last Friday, the department gazetted its decision to withdraw the policy, which incentivises rural specialist teachers with 10% of their basic salary when entering the profession with a four-year qualification.
April 22, 2022
21 April 2022 - Cyril Ramaphosa’s promised ‘new dawn’ continues, with yet another damaging bill soon to be opened for public comment. This time it is both the powers of school-governing bodies (SGB) and the jurisdiction of the courts that the president has in the crosshairs of the ANC’s national democratic revolution (NDR).
April 21, 2022
The Labour Court has ordered the reinstatement of a KwaZulu-Natal teacher after she was deemed to have been dismissed in August 2017.
April 21, 2022
Panyaza Lesufi has been busy undermining SGB autonomy for years and will soon have the backing of the Bill for his dirigiste interventions.
March 14, 2022
A former Eastern Cape school principal who instructed a pupil to search for his lost phone among faeces in a pit toilet, has been removed from the register of educators and will never be allowed to work with children again.
February 23, 2022
A KwaZulu-Natal teacher has been found guilty of contravening the Employment of Educators Act by sexually assaulting a 16-year-old Southlands Secondary School pupil.