North West is one of the best-performing provinces â deputy education minister
By MaryAnne Isaac
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Durban - North West is expected to once again complete the top four list of best-performing provinces for matric results, and this year Deputy Minister of the Department of Basic Education Dr Regina Mhaule is hopeful and expects nothing less.
Mhaule, accompanied by North West Education MEC Mmaphefo Matsemela, visited the province to monitor compliance with Covid-19 protocols and encourage teachers and learners to continue to work hard.
Last year, the Free State reclaimed top spot from Gauteng, which dropped to second position. North West grabbed third position, with the Western Cape completing the top four.
write that whether they would have dropped out anyway is not clear.
The global meme building back better certainly applies to South Africa if we are to achieve a sustainable and resilient recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. We cannot simply rebuild the system with the same flaws.
In our schooling system, building back better requires us to face head-on a major constraint to economic development and greater equality, namely the high prevalence of learner dropout. Half of people living in South Africa live below the poverty line of R1 268 per month with little opportunity to work themselves out of it - the unemployment rate was more than 30% in the third quarter of 2020. It was sobering that a full 10% of the population joined the lines for the special Covid-19 grant of R350. Enabling children to complete school is one of the most powerful strategies to break the cycles of poverty and marginalisation.
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