As the matric exams draw nearer, provincial education department MEC Fundile Gade, departmental stakeholders, teachers' unions and pupils committed themselves to incident-free final examinations on Friday at Laërskool Grens.
When the new school year starts in coastal provinces next Wednesday, pupils of East London's Alphendale Senior Secondary School will be lucky if they find a desk.
Two East London schools are worried how they will be able to reopen when term begins on January 19 after recurring burglaries and vandalism during the holidays.