Learners at an Eastern Cape secondary school who received incomplete matric certificates because of an assessment bungle have pleaded with the Department of Education to assist them by engaging with universities so that they can be placed while waiting to rewrite the paper.
Five years after Equal Education won a case to speed up improvements in school infrastructure, there is no money to remove asbestos from E Cape schools.
The Department of Education has promised that over 1.2 million textbooks and learning materials costing R507 million will be distributed to more than 5,000 schools before November 30 for the 2023 school year.