The Eastern Cape’s National Senior Certificate (NSC) results have slipped, although not drastically, for the first time in four years, prompting education experts to urge a closer examination of the ...

The fatal attack by a former teacher at Ntabankulu Primary School has claimed a third teacher, leaving families and pupils devastated.

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has made it clear there are no excuses for Eastern Cape education departments that ignore the infrastructure backlog.

Pupils crammed into an overcrowded classroom at Mnceba high school in the Eastern Cape, 18 April 2024. Picture: Jacques Nelles/Eyewitness News The Eastern Cape, already struggling with unsafe ...

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has dismissed calls for an independent forensic audit into the Eastern Cape Education Department’s expenditure of infrastructure funds. Instead, Gwarube said ...

With more than half a billion rand in grant funding being withheld from the Eastern Cape education department, some Nelson Mandela Bay public schools are buckling under collapsing ceilings, stripped ...

For the past five years, only a handful of schools in the Eastern Cape have managed the rare feat of achieving a 100% matric pass rate — and 2025 was no different. The province recorded an overall ...

The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education, Ms Joy Maimela, has learned with utter shock and profound sadness of the tragic shooting at Ntabankulu Primary School in the Eastern Cape ...

The Select Committee on Education, Sciences and the Creative Industries has called on the Eastern Cape Department of Education to respond to the shocking news of half-a-billion-rands infrastructure ...