Out of 23 675 schools, 23 100 are ready to open on Monday.All schools in four provinces are ready to reopen.The Department of Education is in the process of revising the 2020 school calendar year.Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has admitted to having "sleepless nights" about when to reopen South Africa's schools, which has been…
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga. (GCIS) Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has postponed her address on the state of readiness of schools to reopen.This comes as Grade 7 and 12s are expected to return to school on Monday.There has been widespread opposition from unions to the reopening of schools.Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has…
Education unions and School Governing Bodies (SGBs) maintain the education system is not ready for the reopening of schools.Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is set to brief the nation on Sunday evening.SGBs and unions flagged their concerns with the minister in Saturday meeting.Education unions met with Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga on Saturday in a…
'Don't stand in way' of those who want to return - Motshekga confident schools are ready to openLimpopo, the Northern Cape and North West are some of the provinces experiencing problems with deliveries, which the education department was monitoring On Thursday, Motshekga visited three schools in Gauteng - Seshegong Secondary School in Olivenhoutbosch, Ivory Park Secondary…
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food
Published: November 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week Infant formula maker ByHeart has “discontinued” manufacturing its products after getting caught up in an outbreak of infant botulism. ByHeart’s founders started a new company, MeridianMade, earlier this year and announced in late October that it would purchase Dublin-based
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that