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The Gauteng Department of education is investigating Mamelodi school for its introduced policy on pregnant learners.

Pregnant learners: Gauteng Department of Education has announced an investigation into Stanza Bopape Secondary School.

South Africans should be worried that this past Christmas and New Year period, there were 100 teens as young as 13 years old that gave birth to babies, writes Joseph Rasethe.

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) says it is concerned about the impact of service delivery protests on the finale Grade 12 examinations.

Critical incidents that have disrupted exams across the country in the past seven days have included load shedding, protest action, and stormy weather.

With Covid-19, came a flood of new telehealth (virtual consulting) healthcare solutions, exposing more patients to its benefits and features...

DENYING pregnant pupil entry to write matric exams is discriminatory.

1. Despite making commitments to act on recommendations from its third UPR cycle, South Africa has not adopted significant measures to implement many of these recommendations. The government struggled to tackle xenophobia and the ongoing threat of violence against foreign nationals. Despite making commitments to act to prevent, investigate and prosecute cases of violence against persons based on sexual orientation and gender identity, violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, t...

It is interesting to note that all 5 of these agencies are led by women, working with the Ministry of Basic Education that is also led by women, the Minister and myself as the Deputy Minister.

The Department of Education’s Learner Pregnancy Policy is a positive step but has shortcomings