Media Releases

Statement by Minister Debbie Schäfer, Minister of Education Western Cape Following the President’s announcement last night, I joined the other MECs for Education for an urgent Council of Education Ministers (CEM) teleconference with national Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, this ...

Statement by Minister Debbie Schäfer, Minister of Education Western Cape Today the WCED Head of Department has written to Western Cape principals providing guidance on schools’ responses to the coronavirus. This follows a letter sent in February before the first case was detected in South Africa ...

Statement by Minister Debbie Schäfer, Minister of Education Western Cape I have decided to uphold the appeal of a WCED decision to cancel the learner transport route in Beaufort West, and the transport route will be reinstated with immediate effect. The Department’s transport policy only allows for ...

Last night, the WCED celebrated the achievements of our Province’s schools who produced excellent results and improvements in our Grade 3, 6 and 9 language and mathematics systemic tests in 2019. The WCED is the only provincial education department to conduct its own systemic testing in Mathematics ...