Schools have opened for 2025, and learners and teachers are settling in. They also have a week-long extra holiday awaiting ...

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has confirmed the dates for the 2025 school calendar, including a including a ‘special’ holiday week, just two weeks after the first term holidays for ...

The first day of school has come and a total of 1.2 million learners start the new academic year on Wednesday, the Western Cape Education ... additional classrooms in 2025. In January, six new ...

The Western Cape Education Department briefed the provincial standing committee on education on its state of readiness for the 2025 school year. The committee heard that out of the 475 schools ...

This includes six new schools and 180 classrooms for January 2025. Meanwhile, the WCED has cut over 2,000 teaching posts due to a R3.8bn budget shortfall. On Wednesday, Western Cape Premier Alan ...