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Learners compliance with health, safety and social distancing requirements during the reopening of schools to ensure safety of learners at Rev. A Mapheto Primary School in Tembisa.(Photo: GCIS) The Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to allow all of its pupils to return to school.The association is also worried about pupils…

Glenrose, an employee and parent at Bishop Bavin, says she does not know what will happen to her or her son. (Azarrah Karrim) The Johannesburg Labour Court ruled that staff are still employed by Bishop Bavin private school despite it being closed down.A group of 102 staffers took the school to court, accusing it of…

According to last week's cumulative total, 375 staff members and 61 pupils had tested positive for Covid-19 in the Western Cape.Where there are multiple cases at schools, the education department says it closely monitors the situation.The Western Cape currently accounts for 56 780 – or 48% – of the total national infections.More than 700 teachers and school…

Clarendon High School for Girls. (Clarendon High School for Girls, Facebook) Allegations of long-standing embedded racism at the school were laid bare after a letter was posted on Facebook. The letter issued by the school's governing body was slammed as a public relations stunt by former pupils, parents. The headmistress has been instructed by education…

A Cape Town history teacher will undergo sensitivity training after giving Grade 7 pupils the "fun" task of making a poster to advertise slaves. "We regret what has happened," says principal of Parklands College secondary faculty Sylvia Steyn.The assignment reads: "Fun Activity - Advertisements were placed in newspapers to advertise the slave auction that would be…