Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse about 100 students protesting Rhodes University’s fee policy during its graduation ceremony, leading to 13 arrests.
Over 120 NUST medical laboratory science students face deregistration amid placement shortages for required practical training, says university and student leaders.
A 62-year-old teacher in Welkom was stabbed at her home by an alleged Grade 11 learner, raising urgent concerns over school violence.
Experts and survivors urge South African schools to lead in preventing gender-based violence through whole-school approaches involving learners, teachers, and caregivers.
Cape Town hosts the first-ever THE World Academic Summit in Africa, spotlighting rising South African universities and the future of AI in education.
GBV survivor Debi Steven urges gender-based violence prevention to start at school, backed by South African research supporting whole-school approaches.
Parliament criticised NSFAS after it paid R616 million to four middleman companies managing student accommodation before switching to direct payments in 2026.
Professor Pitika Ntuli calls for heritage studies in South African schools, urging community elders' involvement to deepen cultural learning on Heritage Day.
NSFAS paid R616-million to middlemen managing student accommodation in 2024-25, sparking parliamentary criticism and calls for direct payments.
Professor Pitika Ntuli urges South African schools to introduce heritage studies, including lessons taught by community elders, to enrich education.
Kenya's university lecturers threaten a strike from 2 October 2026 over stalled 2025-2029 salary talks amid funding and staffing disputes.
Beletanla Public School in District Two struggles with a damaged roof, chair shortage, and limited teaching support, disrupting regular classes during rains.
The 2026 Foundation Phase National Catalogue has been approved, with a R1.6 billion rollout set to introduce updated learning materials and coding to classrooms.
Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube suspended the new R1.6 billion Foundation Phase textbook catalogue on Tuesday 2 September 2026, citing governance failures and financial risk, even after an independent investigation found no evidence of fraud or favouritism in the selection process. The decision means schools across the country, including...
Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube told the Cape Town Press Club on 14 September 2026 that provinces are sitting on R16 billion earmarked for school infrastructure and must spend the money urgently, as the national backlog in classrooms and sanitation has ballooned to R140 billion. Speaking at the engagement, Gwarube...
Placement offers for Gauteng’s Grade 1 and Grade 8 learners will start going out via SMS on 15 October 2026, after a pressure-cooker application window that drew 805,688 submissions for limited spots, the provincial education department confirmed. Gauteng Education MEC Lebogang Maile said on 6 September that the department could...
Gauteng Education MEC Lebogang Maile announced on 13 September 2026 that 32 independent schools were served with closure letters between January and September this year, and two school directors were arrested as the province intensified a crackdown on illegal institutions. Speaking at a media briefing in Johannesburg, Maile said officials...
The Gauteng Department of Education investigated 61 schools suspected of operating without registration between January and September 2026, serving formal closure letters on 32 of them. Seven of those targeted have since ceased operating entirely, while four have applied to become registered institutions, MEC Lebogang Maile told a media briefing...
The Gauteng Department of Education served closure letters on 32 independent schools operating illegally between January and September 2026. Education MEC Lebogang Maile released the figures during a media briefing on Sunday, 13 September, which Cape Flats News independently verified through official departmental records. Investigators examined 61 suspected unregistered schools...
By Simamkele Vanda Funding has been restored for 182 Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) students who were incorrectly defunded under the N+ rule, after the university corrected a series of qualification code errors that had blocked their National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) bursaries. TUT confirmed the restoration on Friday,...
A CapeFlats.co.za reader from Athlone asked whether a non-South African can write Grade 12 examinations. The answer is yes: a valid passport is sufficient identification, and no child can be denied the right to sit exams due to a lack of documentation, following a landmark 2019 High Court ruling. Judge...
Dr Lwazi Lushaba told the Steve Biko memorial lecture that South Africa is still struggling to dismantle colonial structures in knowledge systems thirty years after apartheid.
Gauteng education department promises a permanent building for Umkhumbane Junior Secondary School by January 2027, after three years of mobile classrooms and learner boycotts.
Umkhumbane Junior Secondary School in Soshanguve has 653 registered pupils but no building; the Gauteng education department says construction will finish by January 2027.
The Gauteng education department says Umkhumbane Junior Secondary School in Soshanguve, a school with no building for three years, will finally open a permanent structure in January 2027.
A Soshanguve school with 653 registered learners has been using mobile classrooms for three years while its designated site remains empty, prompting an eight-day pupil boycott.
The Department of Basic Education confirmed the 2026 NSC written exams will run from 13 October to 26 November, with the Life Orientation CAT set for 1 September.
A Phoenix mother has opened a case of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm against a teacher at Havenpark Secondary School after her 16-year-old daughter was allegedly struck repeatedly with a wooden plank. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda confirmed on 10 September that the case had been...
A survey of South African parents has found that 91% support tighter controls on children’s phone use during the school day, adding momentum to a national debate that has already seen several schools restrict smartphones on campus. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has confirmed that decisions on cellphone use...
More than 20 schools across all four districts of the North West province were damaged when destructive winds tore through the region on 4 and 5 September 2026, destroying mobile classrooms and ripping off roofs. The North West Department of Education announced the damage on 7 September, with spokesperson Dr...
