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Concerted behind-the-scenes interventions helped to turn around Limpopo’s NSC worst-performer status – this in a vastly rural province plagued by high levels of poverty and underdevelopment. 

SGB objects to education department’s instruction to admit 41 more schoolchildren

There is a preferred candidate, who, despite acting as principal for several years, still hasn’t been given the job permanently

Teacher unions and the School Governing Body Council of SA have blasted the Limpopo basic education department’s decision to stop education assistants from furthering their studies.

Allowance to educators in remote schools to be stopped in January

The Limpopo education department has scrapped an incentive project to keep teachers in rural schools

Department has asked schools to use funds for running costs to pay assistants, blaming finance minister

SAHRC hearings: The lies and incompetence behind bullying and crimes in schools Fearful principals; suicidal, bullied children; lack of proper access to vital databases listing unsuitable teachers; unresponsive government departments. These factors show the lack of commitment to dealing with corporal punishment, bullying and sexual relations between teachers and learners in this country. Those people who claim that they are fighting this triple challenge are merely paying lip service.  A video...

Educators only fined up to R5 000 for corporal punishment, SAHRC hears Gaps in the country’s basic education legislature make it difficult to implement sanctions in cases of misconduct by teachers against learners.  This is yet another allegation raised during hearings South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on bullying, corporal punishment and sexual relations between teachers and learners in Limpopo last week.  The legislative gaps were dissected when the provincial department of ed...