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Oprah school welcomes new boss

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The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls had appointed Anne van Zyl as its new head.
The school’s board of directors said on Thursday she would take up the post in the new school year starting in January 2010.

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Work hard and you could be like me - Zuma

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President Jacob Zuma has told high school leaders nothing will be given to them on a silver platter, offering himself as an example of someone who made it to the top of the heap through hard work.

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Gauteng Online slammed as R3bn flop

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Gauteng Online is still offline. A sample survey of schools around Gauteng has shown that the school computer project, which is costing taxpayers more than R3-billion, is beset by problems.

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Funds no longer for ‘poor, white girls’ only

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A multimillion-rand educational trust bequeathed by the industrialist and politician Sir Charles George Smith - for the benefit of “European girls born of British/South African or Dutch/South African parents” - will now benefit young women of all races.

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Matric maths crisis looms

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As fears of a 2009 maths matric disaster grow, the Western Cape education department is scrambling to set up a pilot tutoring programme for just 100 matric pupils.

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Teen fight ends in bloody murder

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King Edward VII schoolboy Mfundo Ntshangase was pinned against a car, held by his waist as fists rained down on his face and body.

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Baddies ‘taking school apart piece by piece’

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New Education MEC Donald Grant and two of his provincial government colleagues had a taste of what school children in crime infested areas experience regularly when their visit to a Cape Flats school yesterday was interrupted by pupils’ screams and the sound of gunfire outside.

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Pupils miss first day of school

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More than 100 buses were on standby to operate the school run on Monday morning, but many pupils were left stranded, waiting in queues.

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Stopping the robbing on Robben Island

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Robben Island is supposed to be a symbol of South Africa’s struggle for freedom.
It’s also a cash cow drawing thousands of tourists who want to see where former president Nelson Mandela spent 18 years incarcerated.

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School robbed of computers

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Five computers were stolen from the Mfundweni high school in Qeto village in Peddie, Eastern Cape police said on Wednesday.

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