The Gauteng department of education said 144 124 online applications had already been received for admissions in 2019.

Online applications for 2019 grade one and eight pupils opened this morning. Here are eight things applicants need to know:

About 45 239 applications for grade 1 and 8 classes for 2019 have been completed in the first hour of the online system going live.

Within the first minute of the Gauteng's online school admissions system going live more than 10 000 applications were successfully completed.

Top Maths and Science Grade 12 pupils as well as post-graduate Engineering, Science and Accounting students have just weeks left to apply for a bursary from Sasol.

Dr WF Nkomo High School in Atteridgeville has experienced a second robbery in a week, to the dismay of the Gauteng Department of Education.

The principal at a Durban school where a pupil was recently caught on camera stabbing another is being investigated for allegedly assaulting a teacher

A five-year-old child has been electrocuted at Mutsha Primary School in Thondoni, Limpopo police said on Friday.