The department of education has sent a team of counsellors to support the Ethembeni Secondary School community in Burgersdorp in the Eastern Cape where 102 schoolchildren tested positive for Covid-19.

A total of 380 schools in the Eastern Cape have no principals and 39 have no deputies. The Eastern Cape Education Portfolio Committee has expressed outrage over this situation, which it said cripples ...

Mosoma said the bogus initiation schools remained a problem that still ... Religious and Linguistic Communities believes the deaths of 35 initiates in the Eastern Cape could be linked to illegal ...

Since 2020, schools in the Eastern Cape have been funded well below the national per-learner target. In 2020, schools were advised they would receive 78% of their budgets due to the Covid-19 pandemic.