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Not enough qualified maths teachers: SAIRR - The New Age Online: Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Not enough qualified maths teachers: SAIRR
The New Age Online
The institute said the figures came from a reply by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to a parliamentary question. It said maths was a requirement for many courses at tertiary level and pupils who had taken only mathematical literacy were ...

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Dickson Masemola should get textbooks delivered, or resign - DA - Politicsweb: Sunday, May 12, 2013

Dickson Masemola should get textbooks delivered, or resign - DA
Politicsweb
Related links. Articles: 99.4% of textbooks delivered to schools nationally - Angie Motshekga ». DBE not able to properly monitor pupils access to textbooks - Annette Lovemore ». Comments. If you come across comments that are injurious, defamatory, ...

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Maths, science teachers not up to scratch - Post (subscription): Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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Maths, science teachers not up to scratch
Post (subscription)
When delivering the department's budget for the 2013/14 financial year in Parliament last week, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga revealed that the department had established a maths and science task team to identify teaching and learning ...

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UKZN hailed for compulsory isiZulu classes - eNCA: Friday, May 17, 2013

UKZN hailed for compulsory isiZulu classes
eNCA
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has welcomed the decision. Students who have already enrolled at the university won't be affected by the phasing in of the language. However, some aren't too keen on the idea. “If doing a language is not going ...

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Equal Education gives Angie one-month extension - Mail & Guardian Online: Friday, May 17, 2013

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Equal Education gives Angie one-month extension
Mail & Guardian Online
Equal Education is giving Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga another month to promulgate norms and standards for school infrastructure. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. (Gallo) ...
Equal Education decries delays in norms and standards for schools BDlive

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Equal Education gives Angie one-month extension: Friday, May 17, 2013
Equal Education is giving Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga another month to promulgate norms and standards for school infrastructure.

Minister has month to set school norms: Friday, May 17, 2013

Equal Education is giving Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga another month to promulgate norms and standards for school infrastructure.

Minister has a month to set school norms: Friday, May 17, 2013

Equal Education is giving Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga another month to promulgate norms and standards for school infrastructure.

Equal Education decries delays in norms and standards for schools - BDlive: Friday, May 17, 2013

Equal Education decries delays in norms and standards for schools
BDlive
The lobby group said Wednesday was the agreed deadline for Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to promulgate the norms and standards. However, Ms Motshekga wrote to the group last week and asked for more time. Equal Education has for some ...

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Educational youth camp gets going - New Era: Friday, May 17, 2013

Educational youth camp gets going
New Era
Article Views (non-unique): 4. KEETMANSHOOP – Auf Ballhohe Youth Camp kicked off here at J. Stephanus Stadium, the first time the German-based Auf Ballhohe hosts the programme in Namibia. The organisation has previously conducted youth education camps ...

Hawks ask maritime company for info: Friday, May 17, 2013

The Hawks have visited Smit Amandla Marine in connection with their probe into the R800m patrol fleet contract.

Live creative session for collective hustlers - Artslink.co.za News (press release): Friday, May 17, 2013

Live creative session for collective hustlers
Artslink.co.za News (press release)
The monthly Live Creative Sessions are a platform for up-and-coming creatives to engage with established industry professionals and arts practitioners, receive creative and career advice as well as build relationships with these professionals. Launched ...

Eldorado Park letter touches Zuma's heart - Mail & Guardian Online: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Eldorado Park letter touches Zuma's heart
Mail & Guardian Online
Zuma would be accompanied by Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini, Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane. The visit ...

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Careerssa.net: Helping graduates shift from campus to corporate - Bizcommunity.com: Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Careerssa.net: Helping graduates shift from campus to corporate
Bizcommunity.com
Knowing that South Africa has a high number of unemployed graduates isn't a comforting thought either, but online platforms like careerssa.net provide potential and recent graduates with access to numerous tools and resources to help them plan and ...

SACP on the NDP: We do need a plan, just not this one - Daily Maverick: Thursday, May 16, 2013

Daily Maverick

SACP on the NDP: We do need a plan, just not this one
Daily Maverick
The danger is that government officials will simply ignore it and carry on with the implementation regimes already in place. DM. Photo: SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande arrives in style at the ANC's national elective conference. 16 December 2012 ...

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Motshekga's name is mud - Mail & Guardian Online: Thursday, May 16, 2013

Motshekga's name is mud
Mail & Guardian Online
Minister Angie Motshekga, two weeks ago writer Njabulo Ndebele told me that some of the members of a delegation to the Eastern Cape wept when confronted with conditions in some of the mud schools there. In the Sunday Independent of May 12, the ...

Letter touches Zuma's heart - Sowetan: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Sowetan

Letter touches Zuma's heart
Sowetan
Zuma would be accompanied by Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini, Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane. The visit ...

Bottom of the class - Citizen: Thursday, May 16, 2013

Bottom of the class
Citizen
Yes, we know that Angie Motshekga is not qualified for the position she holds. She got the job by sucking up to Jacob Zuma. 16 May 2013 | Disillusioned. null. Not rated yet. Is this the best we could get for such a crucial portfolio? The real problem ...

Ministers mull Gupta jet report: Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Cabinet ministers are considering a report from a probe into the unauthorised landing of a privately chartered plane at Waterkloof Air Force Base.

Repetition rate for Grades 10 and 11 around 15% to 19% - Angie Motshekga - Politicsweb: Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Repetition rate for Grades 10 and 11 around 15% to 19% - Angie Motshekga
Politicsweb
(2) what (a) remedial assistance has her department developed to assist learners who will progress to grade 12 without meeting promotion requirements and (b) options will be available to learners who have repeated a grade in the further education and ...

Be big on biz with Portfolio Night and Bizcommunity - competition - Bizcommunity.com: Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Be big on biz with Portfolio Night and Bizcommunity - competition
Bizcommunity.com
After years of negotiations, the largest one-day advertising portfolio review in the world, Portfolio Night, is finally making it to Johannesburg, South Africa - and Bizcommunity, in conjunction with McCann Johannesburg, has one ticket of the coveted ...

Plan to centralise varsity applications - Independent Online: Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Independent Online

Plan to centralise varsity applications
Independent Online
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande said last year that among the aims of the system would be to address the problem of prospective students who decided only in January to start looking for places for that year. It would also help ...

Careerssa.net: Helping graduates shift from campus to corporate - Bizcommunity - Bizcommunity.com: Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Careerssa.net: Helping graduates shift from campus to corporate - Bizcommunity
Bizcommunity.com
Knowing that South Africa has a high number of unemployed graduates isn't a comforting thought either, but online platforms like careerssa.net provide potential and recent graduates with access to numerous tools and resources to help them plan and ...

Is there to be a third bailout for ¿25bn SME debt? - Irish Independent: Friday, April 19, 2013

Is there to be a third bailout for €25bn SME debt?
Irish Independent
Cumberbatch's brush with death. Benedict Cumberbatch has told how he feared for his life when he was the victim of a carjacking in South Africa. James Corden has enjoyed acclaim for a role on Broadway since springing to fame on the ...

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Naming education's elephant in the room - Moneyweb.co.za: Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Naming education's elephant in the room
Moneyweb.co.za
The much (and often unfairly) maligned Angie Motshekga and her Director General Bobby Soobrayan, may well be the first leadership team at a national level that is prepared to do so. This is the real reason why SADTU is demanding their resignation.

What does the right to education entail? - Daily Maverick: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Daily Maverick

What does the right to education entail?
Daily Maverick
In November last year, Minister Angie Motshekga entered into an agreement with Equal Education whereby she undertook to publish a draft of these regulations in January. Equal Education's conclusion on the draft norms and standards were that they were ...

Section27: 'Everywhere they need help ¿ we just give them help' - Daily Maverick: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Daily Maverick

Section27: 'Everywhere they need help – we just give them help'
Daily Maverick
The employees around the table are the very same people guys like the SACP's Blade Nzimande and Sadtu's Mugwena Maluleke have called foreign-funded agents of imperialism masquerading as civil society advocates trying to discredit and dislodge the ...

Secrecy Bill still does not pass constitutional muster - Lindiwe Mazibuko - Politicsweb: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Secrecy Bill still does not pass constitutional muster - Lindiwe Mazibuko
Politicsweb
The less said about Higher Education Minister, Blade Nzimande's proposal that "disrespecting the President" be made an offence under law, the better. Tellingly, this is where the government has received the most pushback against its authoritarian ...

Zuma meets Eldorado residents - The New Age Online: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

AFP

Zuma meets Eldorado residents
The New Age Online
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini and Hawks head Anwa Dramat accompanied Zuma. The visit followed a letter a concerned parent wrote to Zuma in April. In it Cordelia ...
Eldorado Park letter touches Zuma's heart Mail & Guardian Online

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Minister wants extension - The New Age Online: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Minister wants extension
The New Age Online
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has asked for an extension to the deadline to finalise the Norms and Standards for School Infrastructure. She asked for the extension in a letter to lobby group Equal Education last week. “I would like to ...

Radebe receives Gupta jet report: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Justice Minister Jeff Radebe has received a report on the Gupta jet probe, but the public may not know the content any time soon.

Radebe receives Gupta report : Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A report from a probe into the unauthorised landing of a privately chartered plane at Waterkloof Air Force Base was handed to Justice Minister Jeff Radebe on Tuesday.

Rand falls to three-week low: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The rand fell to a three-week low and bond yields jumped the most since October as a strike at a Lonmin mine sparked concern.

The real cause of our education crisis - Helen Zille - Politicsweb: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The real cause of our education crisis - Helen Zille
Politicsweb
The much (and often unfairly) maligned Angie Motshekga and her Director General Bobby Soobrayan, may well be the first leadership team at a national level that is prepared to do so. This is the real reason why SADTU is demanding their resignation.

DGs Guptagate reports expected shortly : Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A probe by directors general into the unauthorised landing of a privately-chartered plane at Waterkloof Air Force Base was expected to be completed on Tuesday.

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