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MEC Debbie Schäfer won’t apologise over ’false claim’ on social media By Okuhle Hlati Share Cape Town – Education MEC Debbie Schäfer has refused to apologise for making false statements on Twitter regarding a student’s acceptance into UCT, with the Good party’s Brett Herron calling her out over race baiting and “conducting herself in bad faith”. Schäfer took to social media at the weekend to lament an apparent rejection of Paul Roos Gymnasium top 2020 matric pupil Michiel Kühn into UCT, taking from the response on an admission letter, and qu...

I found the article by Nicky Roberts in In addition to her comments on each of the six metrics per province, she then calculates a poverty factor for each province. In her scoring, using her six metrics and the poverty factor, Eastern Cape, Limpopo and KZN are ranked first, second and third respectively.  The Western Cape (WC) is ranked sixth, having been first scored by her at number two, prior to the application of the poverty weighting.  It is very easy to slip into the comparison/competition narrative when comparing provincial matric results. Roberts’ article focuses us on a deeper a...

Empumelelweni Primary School started operating on a field adjacent to Old Faure Road, next to Forest Village, Eerste River, on Tuesday, 16 February. About 450 pupils attend the makeshift school. There are no chairs or toilets, and pupils bring chairs from home and use toilets in homes next to the school. Schools in the area have donated textbooks to allow teachers to continue classes. Volunteer teachers from the area teach grades 1 to 11 while parents sit on rocks in the middle of the field or on its outskirts to make sure their children are not harmed or go missing. Classes start at 8am and ...

A number of pupils handed over a list of grievances to management regarding allegations of sexual harassment, body shaming and a dictatorial system.

More than 8 600 pupils still unplaced in Western Cape Share Cape Town – Two weeks into the school year, 8 682 pupils are still unplaced in the province. While the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has been slammed for an alleged lack of proper planning for the academic year, they said the number of unplaced pupils was down from 9 949 recorded last year. ANC provincial spokesperson on education Khalid Sayed said the persistent crisis of unplaced learners in the province is one that the Education Department has been struggling with for years. “The challenge can only be addressed if t...