No, the Department of Basic Education has no records of educators either in (a) primary or (b) high schools, who have committed statutory rape under the provisions of section 15(1) of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 5 of 2015 in each province;

(i)(aa); (bb); (cc); and (dd) -  The question is relevant to the provincial administrations, since it is the responsibility of each ...

The Department monitors the appointment of educators through the PERSAL records received on a monthly basis as part of monitoring the trends in the nature of appointment of educators. The latest information is as at the end of October 2023. The table below shows the number of educators appointed who were appointed in temporary capacities as at the end of October 2023. The number excludes ...

(a) The number of Agricultural schools per province is as follows:

(b) The Provincial Education Departments have put support programmes in place to ensure that Grade 12s receive the required support to pass the NSC. These include monitoring of ...

(a)  The question by the Honourable Member falls under purview of the MECs, not the Department of Basic Education. 

Response to question b (i)(ii) is below:

Table 1: Number of learners in ordinary schools, by grade and province, in 2023

Table 2: Number of learners in special schools by grade and province, in 2023

The Department has not issued a government or official credit card to the (a) Minister, (b) Deputy Minister or (c) any other official since 1 April 2019. Therefore the resultant responses are as follows:

(i) N/A

(ii) N/A

(iii) N/A

(iv) N/A

(v) N/A

(vi) N/A

(vii) N/A

(1)   All Provincial Education Departments (PEDs) independently arrange matric camps to assist and support learners in various subjects. This is done in the quest to improve learner performance and results (Learning Outcomes),

(a)The number of schools or camps varies from province to province depending on the number of learners targeted for assistance. There were 2346 centres in all, in 2023.

(b) Provinces encourage schools ...

1. Section 5 of the Employment of Educators Act (EEA), 1998, gives the powers to create posts for public schools to the Member of Executive Council (MEC) responsible for education in that province and further gives the powers to distribute such posts to schools to the Head of Department. This is on the condition that both the creation and the distribution of the posts are ...

The Department of Basic Education has developed a 10 Point Plan that aims to address the challenges identified in several reports, including the audit report. The 10 point plan consists of the following components:

• Updated data management on current infrastructure;
• Updated and simplified Asset management Plans;
• Updated and simplified Infrastructure Programme Management Plans;
• Standardised concept designs, specification, processes and contracts,
• Procurement of framework contracts, ...

The 2023 NSC examination results are scheduled to be released on 18 January 2024 by the Minister of Basic Education followed by the Provincial MECs and the release by schools to candidates on 19 January 2024.

The writing of the 2023 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations commenced on 30th October 2023 and will conclude on 6th December 2023 and marking will take place from ...