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Anina Walters and the “Land of Sweets” wins the 2024 Story Stars competition!

20 February 2025
Statement by Minister David Maynier, Minister of Education Western Cape This morning, I visited Durbanville Primary School to announce our 2024 Story Stars winners! Story Stars is an annual creative writing competition for all Grade 4 learners in the Western Cape. Congratulations to Anina Walters, ...

#BackOnTrack programme to provide extra academic support to 23 450 learners this year

18 February 2025
Statement by Minister David Maynier, Minister of Education Western Cape Our #BackOnTrack extra Saturday classes for the 2025 school year kicked off on Saturday, 15 February 2025. I visited Thembani Primary School in Langa to see the programme in action and welcome learners to their extra classes. ...

Extremely late applications received for 9 289 Grade 1 and 8 learners since 1 January 2025

11 February 2025
Statement by Minister David Maynier, Minister of Education Western Cape Despite severe budget constraints, the Western Cape Government is expanding access to education across our province. We have completed 283 new classrooms in January 2025, including new schools in Lwandle, Wallacedene, Blue ...

Stop the share: Let us support victims of bullying by not sharing videos of assaults

6 February 2025
Statement by Minister Brent Walters, Head of Department, WCED This past week, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) received various videos of learners allegedly attacking one another both in and out of school. Many of the images are deeply disturbing. The WCED is engaging with each of the ...

Matric 2024 Awards to Schools

30 January 2025
Western Cape Education Department National Senior Certificate Examinations 2024 Awards to Schools In the first category, schools are awarded in terms of Improvement in pass rate, greatest increase in the percentage of candidates achieving access to Bachelor’s degree studies, improvement and ...

#BackOnTrack: Selected systemic test results surpass 2019 scores for the first time

28 January 2025
Statement by Minister David Maynier, Minister of Education Western Cape Our annual systemic test results for 2024 show that we are making good progress in getting our children’s learning #BackOnTrack, with selected scores surpassing pre-Covid-19 levels. The pass rates for both Grade 9 Mathematics ...
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