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2020 remembered for fight to save academic year in SA The spread of the virus saw the education sector divided on how to save the academic year during a pandemic. FILE: Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga monitoring the start of matric exams at Sekano-Ntoane High School on Soweto on the morning of 5 November 2020. Picture: Twitter/@DBE_SA 82 days ago JOHANNESBURG - The year 2020 will be remembered as the year schools had to face the harsh reality of possibly losing the entire academic year. Government...

Covid-19: Should schools rather remain closed come 27 January? 28 December 2020 1:43 PM Lockdown COVID-19 second wave Share This: Will it be safe (enough) to return? Lester Kiewit interviews Basil Manuel (National Professional Teachers' Organisation of SA). South Africa faces a massive problem when schools reopen – we may not have enough teachers as a result of Covid-19, warned the Department of Basic Education. Five days ago I got information that 14 teachers had passed away within 24 hours, yesterday 18 teachers reported to have died also...

Exams rewrite ruling: Unions ’vindicated’, some students hoped to improve marks By Manyane Manyane Share The judgement by Judge Norman Davis has saved thousands of learners from a grave injustice that “would live with learners for the rest of their lives.” This is according to the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) following the decision by the Pretoria High Court to set aside the rewriting of two matric exams. On Friday, Judge Davis ruled that the decision by the Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga for matrics to rewrite two leaked exam papers was ...

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga Photo: ewn.co.za GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - The announcement that matric learners will have to rewrite mathematics paper 2 and physical science paper 2 after they had been leaked, elicited nationwide reaction.  Not only did it come as a shock to many Grade 12 learners who have already put it behind them, but teacher's unions in general feel the decision is an overreaction.  George Herald spoke to some matriculants who say it is unfair to those who have already given their best, but others welcome a second chance to improve their r...