Don’t chase away learners over the age of 18, education department tells schools

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has urged high schools not to discriminate against students who are well advanced in age.

This comes amid incidents involving 21-year-old school pupils across the country.

In the Free State, a 21-year-old Grade 12 pupil recently stabbed Matefo Mphosela, a 35-year-old physics teacher, to death at her house late in the evening.

The police are probing circumstances around the incident.

In Gauteng, a 21-year-old Grade 11 learner was arrested after fatally stabbing a schoolmate at Qalabotjha Secondary School in Vlakfontein.

The incident is suspected to have been related to gangsterism.

Meanwhile, in KwaZulu-Natal, another 21-year-old is in court for…

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Johannesburg – The South Africa Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) has condemned the brutal killing of an educator by a Grade 12 pupil at Kagisanong Combined School in Soutpan, Free State. Thirty-five-year-old physical science teacher Matefo Mphosela was stabbed at her …

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