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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 14, 2026
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- Aug 8, 2026
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How principals are using their own monies to keep schools running (opens the original)
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School principals are getting into personal debt to keep schools functioning while provincial education departments delay releasing funds for basic operating costs. At the recent South African Principals’ Association (Sapa) national conference in Limpopo attended by more than 850 principals, school leaders related how they had used their personal credit cards or savings to buy stationery and other supplies. The issue was raised in a plenary and in follow-up interviews. Requesting anonymity, thre
MPs reject Mpumalanga broken schools report as ‘vague’ (opens the original)
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Parliament’s oversight committee has trashed a progress report by the Mpumalanga department of education and ordered the province to return with evidence of what it has done about problems identified at eight schools. MPs in the basic education portfolio committee on Tuesday shut down the department’s presentation, saying its responses to recommendations made during oversight visits were “vague, unsupported and did not show whether conditions” at the schools had improved. The committee’s demand
Call to act on burnout of principals (opens the original)
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Nearly two months after the Governing Body Foundation (GBF) released a troubling report that found almost 60% of public school principals are ready to quit over overwhelming red tape, the department of basic education (DBE) has yet to respond to its recommendations. GBF chief executive officer Marna Jordaan said the foundation would raise the matter at the national curriculum framework meeting on September 5 and ask what action, if any, had been implemented since the report was released on June
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