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About 1.2 million children will start their primary and high school years as grade 1 and 8 pupils when schools reopen on Wednesday – many of them in overcrowded classrooms, flood-damaged buildings, and dodging bullets in their bid for education.
While most education experts have welcomed the matric pass rate, which increased by 4.4% from 82.9% in 2023 to 87.3% in 2024, some have expressed mixed reactions.
Dubbed Cape Town's "most improved school" last year, a Khayelitsha high school has continued its trajectory and dramatically improved its results, achieving a 99.3% pass rate in the 2024 matric exams.
The Portfolio Committee on Land Reform and Rural Development wants an audience with Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini following his suspension of the Ingonyama Trust Board.
A Syrian organisation to which a Sandton man donated R11 500 in bitcoin was investigated by US authorities for financing "al-Qaeda and affiliated foreign terror organisations" through the use of cryptocurrencies.
The chairperson of the tribunal investigating Judge President Selby Mbenenge expressed sympathy for the Eastern Cape High Court leader's sexual harassment accuser after she broke down during her evidence - but made it clear he had questions for her.
A majority of South Africans believe Donald Trump will be good for Americans, according to a new poll released on Wednesday.
Mpumalanga police have apprehended a second suspect believed to be involved in the mass shooting at a tavern in Pienaar that claimed the lives of eight people.
Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has vowed to eradicate pit toilets in schools by March 2025.
City Power is confronting a surge in theft and vandalism that has plunged several suburbs into darkness over the festive season and into the new year.