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Western Cape Education Department

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SANTACO-WC minibus taxi strike is destroying teaching and learning in the WC

As a result of the SANTACO-WC minibus taxi strike, 852 259 learners stayed home from school today, which is 71% of the learners in our...

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Number of learners missing school increases to over 456 000

The SANTACO-WC minibus taxi strike prevented 456 020 learners and 17 449 staff members from getting to school today, with the Cape Town...

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Minibus taxi strike keeps over 287 000 children home from school

As a result of the SANTACO Western Cape minibus taxi strike, 287 420 learners have not been able to access their constitutional right to...

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Criminals continue to target Western Cape schools

Despite the Western Cape Government subsidising holiday security at 436 schools over the June/July holidays, our schools have unfortunately...

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Rustenburg Girls’ High is in the Top 10 of the World’s Best School competition!

This morning, T4 Education in partnership with Templeton World Charity Foundation, Accenture and American Express, revealed their 2023 Top...

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Don’t wait! Two weeks left in the 2024 admissions applications window

As of 2pm on 30 March 2023, we had received applications for 90 305 learners for the 2024 school year. With parents applying for more than...

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Education – A budget to get the job done

Introduction We will spend a massive R29.55 billion on education this year in the Western Cape. Which is an increase of R1.38 billion...

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Six schools have won R25 000 each in the ‘Letter to my library’ competition!

We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2022 school library competition: “Letter to my Library”! The competition was held in...

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School admissions and infrastructure update

As of 17h30 on Thursday, 16 March 2023, we have received applications for 40 694 learners for the 2024 school year. With parents applying...

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2022 Systemic test results show interventions are working

We published the 2021 systemic test results last year, which revealed that the Covid-19 pandemic caused devastating learning losses, which...

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