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Controversial Panyaza Lesufi’s online registration system plunges schools across SA into total chaos

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The placement of pupils by the Department of Education has created new crises, leaving parents and pupils furious.

Cases have been reported from certain schools in the Central Transvaal region that are hopelessly overcrowded, which have apparently been criticized for evading the truth many pupils have not even be placed yet.

What is alarming, however, is that pupils are so misplaced that they are now up to 40 km away from the school they have to travel to every day.

The chaos that prevailed at many schools on the first day of school was fiercely denied by Gauteng spokesperson Lesufi of the education department

Educators believe that whites should immediately take their children out of the crowded classrooms and place them in private schools where adequate space and good teaching methods are applied.

The excellent academic achievements of BCVO schools have shown that pupils not only receive excellent education but also broaden their knowledge in a safe, p
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Another black school up in flames reducing the number of schools for black learners

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Another school was burned down by the country’s “barbarians” reducing the number of schools meant for blacks.

The school, located in the Vanderbijlpark location, is an elementary school that suddenly leaves a large number of pupils without a classroom.

Although the authorities have ordered an investigation into the incident, it is the work of vandals who decided to burn down the school just a day before the first day of the term.

The Tokelo Secondary School in Evaton, started burning in the early hours of the morning, and no trace of the culprits was found.

The fire reportedly caused a loss of more than R4m and repairs are only expected to begin after the investigation has been completed.

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Grade 9 Certificate almost official – learners will now be able to leave school sooner and of course unemployment rate will also rise

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Cyril Ramaphosa approved the proposed education policy that allows learners to leave school in grade 9.  The move will allow learners to obtain a Grade 9 certificate and enter the workforce.

Angie Motshekga criticized her proposal for her fierce criticism but it now becomes official ANC policy. According to Ramaphosa, the move will focus on integrating learners sooner into the country’s workforce and the country’s economy.

With a matric certificate already worth little more than the paper on which it is printed, the step should be seen as an attempt to “improve” matric results due to a large number of learners leaving school at an early age.

Educators point out that the matrices do not find work, and that the Grade 9 pupils that leave school will increase the unemployment rate that will affect t SA to be graded more quickly to junk status in the economic field.

 
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Children in SA are starving – One out of ten children had to go to bed hungry last year

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About 2.1 million children live in households where there is not enough food. Just over a third of these children live in KwaZulu-Natal and another 20% live in Gauteng.

This is among the findings in a report titled “The South African Child Gauge 2019” released earlier. This comprehensive study of the circumstances in which South African children live was conducted by the Children’s Institute of the University of Cape Town, together with Unicef ​​South Africa, the Center for Excellence in Human Development at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Tutu Foundation and Standard Bank. Tutuwa Community Foundation.

The situation has improved since 2002 when 30% of children were starving.

The breadline: Individuals who have to survive on less than R1 183 per month.

“The expansion of child welfare grants to 12 million children in 2018 made the biggest contribution to this decline,” the report states.

School nutrition programs, which fed 9 million pupils in
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Rumours that the minimum pass requirement for maths has been “reduced to 20%” is fake says Department of Education- Or is it?

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The government are trying to kill rumours and denies that the minimum pass requirements for math for gr. 7 to gr. 9 are reduced to 20%. However, education unions believe this is not the biggest concern facing this sector at present.

Chris Klopper, chief executive of the South African Teachers Union said on Monday that the department’s plans to automatically advance pupils in the foundation phase (Gr. 1, Gr. 2 and Gr. 3) should rather to be a bigger concern in education circles.

Mugwena Maluleke, general secretary of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadou), also made it clear on Monday that the largest trade union in the sector also does not support the automatic promotion of such pupils.

The unions responded after the Department of Basic Education on Sunday strongly denied rumors on social media platforms that the minimum pass requirement for math was “reduced to 20%” for the senior phase of gr. 7 to gr. 9 and dismissed it as “fake news”.

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Sex education taken to far in SA – 120 000 teenage pregnancies recorded in 2019 – Comprehensive sexuality education not been successful in ensuring a decrease in pregnancies

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The DA has said the more than 120 000 teenage pregnancies between age 10 and 19 as at June 2019 should raise alarm bells in the country.

“Sexuality education in schools should focus on pregnancy prevention in schools but also awareness needs to be raised in communities,” DA MP Chantel King said.

King made the statement following a report in Independent Media on Friday which showed that the number of teenage pregnancies has increased in the 2018-19 financial year to 124 628 births, including those school-going children still at primary school level.

KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Gauteng are leading the pack with the high number of teenage pregnancies.

This was revealed by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga in a written response to a parliamentary question from King.

King had asked Motshekga the number of pupils who fell pregnant between June 2018 and June 2019 and their age groups.

She had also enquired about provinces in which the
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Angered pupils ‘burn down Durban school’ after getting ‘bad marks’

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The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education has condemned the burning down of Zwelinjani Secondary School in Durban, after pupils allegedly became enraged over poor marks they had received.

“There are claims that the fire started after chaos erupted when school reports were issued to learners who felt that the results they had obtained were not what they deserved. The learners allegedly accused teachers of giving them bad marks,” department spokesperson Kwazi Mthethwa said on Thursday after the incident.

He said emergency services had been called out to Zwelinjani Secondary School in Zwelibomvu, in the Pinetown District, earlier in the day.

“Emergency teams have responded to fire incidents at the school. Buildings that were destroyed by fire include the office of the school principal, the school kitchen and staff room.”

Mthethwa said district officials had reported that that “no one was injured in the fire, but property was destroyed badly”.

“We appeal to the pupils
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Gauteng is in chaos following controversial Lesufi’s plans to place white children in black neighborhoods

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The controversial Minister of Education in Gauteng that plans to place whites in black residential schools is a complete failure and with only four days left, many children will not know where to go on the first school day of 2020.

Although Panyaza Lesufi vehemently denies that this is his intention, educators point out that he has by no means taken into account the proven system of children going to the school closest to their place of residence.

His system of putting children online is a huge failure, and hundreds of children have not yet been placed in any school on Monday.

Nearly 9,000 scholars have yet to be notified where they will be placed, and many parents have decided to avoid the chaos and now want to put their children in CVO schools.

However, Panyaza Lesufi’s assurance that every child will be placed has led to several schools now facing overcrowding, which is putting quality education back into question.

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Panyaza Lesufi could be replaced as Gauteng education MEC if AfriForum gets its way

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AfriForum’s campaign demanding the removal of Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi from office began on Wednesday with an online petition calling for his removal.

The minority-rights organisation said it would also hand over a memorandum to Gauteng premier David Makhura at his offices in the Johannesburg CBD on Thursday, in which it will ask that Lesufi be dismissed.

Before handing over the memorandum, AfriForum said it will start by laying criminal charges at the Johannesburg Central police station relating to the education department’s alleged misappropriation of more than R900m.

AfriForum announced on Tuesday that it would launch its campaign to remove Lesufi when it responded to a statement by the department that 14,000 grade 1 and grade 8 learners had not been placed in schools.

The department outlined measures it would take to ensure that the remaining 14,617 prospective grade 1 and grade 8 pupils were placed in schools by the end of the month. It
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Limpopo school that failed to reach a 50% matric pass rate has allegedly fabricated marks even though the pupils have not written for exams

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Whistle-blower says school fabricated the English examination marks of grades 8, 9 and 11. He says pupils did not even sit for the exams

A Limpopo school that has failed to reach a 50% matric pass for the past three years allegedly fabricated English marks for grades 8, 9 and 11 in March.

The allegation about the fabricated marks was made by Michael Mosomane to the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) as part of his submission, which City Press has seen, challenging the termination of his contract by the education department in May.

Mosomane was employed in January as a temporary accounting teacher at Nakedi Secondary in De Vrede village about 130km outside of Polokwane.

He told City Press that he had initially reported the matter to the education department’s offices in Polokwane on May 6 to raise the alarm, but he received no feedback.

Instead, his contract was terminated by the department on May 27, despite it being scheduled to end in December
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