According to Stats SA's 2024 midyear population estimates, there are 1.1 million five-year-olds in the country. Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has revealed that South Africa needs ...

BASIC Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube said Grade R practitioners will be formally integrated into the basic education system as educators once the provisions of Grade R in the Basic Education Laws ...

Early Childhood Development (ECD) and grade R teachers staged a march to the Department of Basic Education offices on Struben Street on July 24. The reason for the march was that the group is not ...

More than 7,000 Grade R teachers across South Africa are unqualified. Those are the worrying figures which emerged from the Department of Basic Education during a parliamentary committee meeting on ...