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Fun-filled events for pupils

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Friday marks the start of school holidays throughout the country and the city of Durban has prepared action-packed events for pupils and parents.

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Sex scandal school: parents want answers

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People in Umlazi are demanding to know why they have not been addressed about the allegations of sexual misconduct against five Makhumbuza teachers.

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I told everyone about my ordeal - Zille

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Premier Helen Zille’s message to the children of Pinelands North Primary School was clear - “learning to read is essential if you are to be the best person you can be”.

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‘Zuma man’ leaves top varsity

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UCT has parted ways with Paul Ngobeni, a leading member of a brains trust which claimed to have freed President Jacob Zuma of fraud and corruption charges.

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Learning to start taking care of the world

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Oprah Winfrey sat rapt in the front row of the state-of-the-art theatre during a show put on by the poor girls she had built an exclusive school for.

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Oprah opens up her school and heart to media

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Oprah skipped and jumped around with her girls. Her smile and her embrace wide and warm, she showed them off like a proud parent.

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Creecy determined to iron out problems

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Wednesday saw an “uneven” resumption of teaching at Soweto schools following last week’s disruptions by teachers, Gauteng Education MEC Barbara Creecy said.

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Gains and losses in SA education

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Few people will disagree that June 16, 1976 was the single most powerful catalyst in for the demise of apartheid in South Africa, something that in turn saw its culmination in the first democratic elections in 1994.

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Wacky gimmick gets kids reading

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St George’s Grammar School principal David Bester was making good on a promise when, clad in navy blue pyjamas and slippers, he sat on the roof of the school library reading Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

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Teachers should not inflict pain - Mokonyane

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Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has cautioned striking Sadtu teachers in Soweto that if any teacher was caught striking on Wednesday, they would be arrested.

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