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A video of the two pupils involved in the scuffle went viral on social media, showing one pupil being beaten to the ground outside the premises of the school on July 29.

Mossel Bay residents will have to wait a bit longer for a new high school, after the Western Cape education department said it would take another four years to build it.

The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) says false allegations have been spread regarding the incident at Table View High School, where learners allegedly fought “over a packet of chips”.

(Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach) The Western Cape education department forked out more than R600 000 for a principals disciplinary hearing. The principal refused to reopen the school at the height of the Covid-19 infection peak last year.  The SGB believes the department has gone overboard.  The Western Cape education department (WCED) has come under fire for its legal bills after instituting disciplinary proceedings against Heathfield High School principal, Wesley Neumann. Education MEC...

Community shuts down Philippi school over alleged mismanagement of R3 million in funding Share Cape Town - Angry Philippi East parents shut access to Faku Primary School for two days, calling for the removal of the school principal and school governing body (SGB) members over alleged financial mismanagement. Parents have alleged the officials had mismanaged R3 million allocated to the school and demanded answers about computers that disappeared from the premises. A parent who asked to remain a...

Share This: The ANC in the Western Cape has approached the Constitutional Court in a bid to compel the WCED to resolve the issue of unplaced learners in the province. The Western Cape ANC together with the community group Parents for Equal Education have filed an application in the Constitutional Court over the high number of learners who still have not been placed at schools in the province. ANC spokesperson on education in the legislature, Khalid Sayed says there has been no political will to...

The provincial ANC has teamed up with a group called Parents for Equal Education SA and are planning to go to court to compel the Western Cape Education Department to address the number of unplaced learners in the province.

The ANC in the Western Cape and Parents for Equal Education SA have launched a court bid to compel the Western Cape education department to address the number of unplaced pupils in the province.



Heathfield High community demands charges against principal be dropped Share Cape Town - Activists, parents and learners have once again come out to voice their support for Heathfield High School principal Wesley Neumann, who faces dismissal for defying an edict from the Western Cape Education Department (WCED). The disciplinary charges against Neumann stem from his opposition to his school being reopened during the last year’s first Covid-19 lockdown. On Tuesday, his supporters protested ...

The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) said it had made excellent progress in placing learners in the province over the past few weeks, and was on track to place the remaining 735 learners this week.