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School environments were viewed as potential super-spreaders, considering the amount of interaction among learners and teachers, and the frequent use of surfaces such as desks, boards and chairs. Learners also use communal toilets and taps for drinking water, hence it was feared that schools were dangerous places for the transmission of the virus.
The strategies focused on remote and mostly digital learning activities, including online learning, encouragement to read textbooks and listening to educational television and radio programmes. According to the World Bank, the uptake of these programmes varied widely, with nine in 10 children engaged in learning activities in
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NSFAS to re-prioritise its budget to fund first-year students, says Blade Nzimande
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Johannesburg - The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) will be releasing funds for first-year students and registration periods at public universities will be extended, Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande announced on Thursday.
Nzimande was speaking at a media briefing hosted by the Acting Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni.
Nzimande’s announcement comes after Wits University students took to the streets of Johannesburg this week to protest about being financially excluded from registering for the 2021 academic year.
On Wednesday Mthokozisi Ntumba, 35, who was in the Braamfontein area for a doctor’s visit was shot and killed allegedly by police as they tried to disperse the protesting students.
Western Capeâs top achieving matriculants honoured by Winde and Schäfer at Leeuwenhof
By Sisonke Mlamla
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Cape Town â The Western Capeâs top achievers for the 2020 National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams were celebrated on Tuesday morning, at an annual award ceremony hosted at the official residence of the premier.
Education MEC Debbie Schäfer and Premier Alan Winde hosted the class of 2020 to congratulate them on their results.
Winde said last year was an incredibly difficult year. My wife, Tracy, and I know, our daughter also had to write her matric exams.
âBut you persevered and finished your year, and for that, we, as a province, are proud.
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When his village experienced load shedding in the middle of the night, matric pupil Kamogelo Brandon Senoa would turn on his cellphone torch so he could continue studying.
This week the 18-year-old from Ga-Mamaala reaped the rewards of the long hours spent swotting in the backyard shack that doubles as his study and bedroom.
The pupil from Mmantutule Senior Secondary school in Mesopotamia, a village in the Waterberg district of Limpopo, passed matric with three distinctions: mathematics, life orientation and life sciences.
The Waterberg region, one of the remotest areas of the province, emerged as the best-performing part of the province in the 2020 matric results, with an average of 77.5%. It was followed by Vhembe East with 77.1% and Vhembe West at 72.7%. The province itself was placed seventh, with a 68.2% average, just above Eastern Cape and Northern Cape.