A worker cleaning a classroom. Schools are expected to receive all grades from 24 August.Matrics returned last week and were joined by those in Grade 7 on Tuesday. Various provincial departments say they are satisfied with the turnout of pupils. Grade 7 pupils returned to school on Tuesday after having been away for two weeks following the…
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga called for an end to gender-based violence after the rape of a 12-year-old pupil in KZN.The pupil ran home to fetch her face mask after she was refused entry at school and reported she had been raped when she returned.A 17-year-old has been arrested for…
Anika de Beer. (Hoërskool Montana, Facebook) A Grade 11 pupil from Pretoria died during a training flight on Tuesday.Anika de Beer dreamt of completing her pilot's licence and had completed her first solo flight a few days before the fatal crash. The Civil Aviation Authority is investigating the crash. A Grade 11 pupil at Hoërskool Montana in…
Schools such as Wynberg Girls High have to turn away hundreds of hopeful pupils and parents. (Steve Kretzmann, GroundUp) There doesn't appear to be space for at least 2 504 hopefuls looking for a place in Grade 8 at high schools in Cape Town.There are 59 761 Grade 7 pupils currently finishing their last year of…
I was officially diagnosed with Lupus in May of 2021. I say officially because my symptoms started long before that, I just didn't know it. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation and pain in different parts of the body. Your immune system is meant to help your body fight infection. But
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Duodenal mucosal resurfacing (DMR) — an investigational endoscopic procedure — helped patients maintain weight loss, and in some cases, even lose additional weight, 3 months after discontinuing GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy, initial results of the open-label, multistage REMAIN-1 trial showed. In addition, “the procedure was well tolerated, with only minor, transient TEAEs [treatment-emergent adverse events]