Wynberg Secondary School’s band will be making their big stage debut at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival annual free concert.

More than a hundred pupils were up in arms alleging Masibambane Secondary School was denying pupils a chance to repeat their grades.

Vandalism and burglaries at schools have increased over the last year in the province, according to statistics by the WCED.

It also emerged that a teacher left the roll-call list on the hired bus hence Enoch Mpianzi was unaccounted for.

Parents yesterday shut down the Beacon Valley school, demanding that things change immediately.

A KwaZulu-Natal teacher was wounded on Wednesday when gunmen posing as parents opened fire at the primary school, while in a separate incident two Grade 8 and 9 pupils stabbed each other during a fight.

The ANC in the province wants Premier Alan Winde to act against Education MEC Debbie Schäfer, for the drop in the province’s ranking in the matric pass rate.

Nyati Bush and River Break claims that there was a point where eight pupils could not be accounted for.

Enock Mpianzi died after a water raft he and other pupils had built overturned on the Crocodile River.

‘Donation’ allegedly demanded at no-fee school

Keamohetswe Seboko and Enoch Mpianzi, who died in separate incidents in the first week of school last week, are just two names in a long list of names of kids to lose their lives while at school.

About 10 Section 21 schools (which are responsible for managing their own funds) owe the municipality close to R20million for water.

According to reports, a Bishop Lavis pupil, who asked not to be named, said he was attacked by four boys, two of whom are pupils at the school.

WCED has said the greatest demand for learner placements is for Grade 8 in Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, Philippi, Delft, Mitchells Plain, Mfuleni and Strand.

Mobile classrooms have replaced the trees under which Wellington pupils were taught for months last year.

A Grade 11 pupil at an Athlone high school who was threatened with rape after being dragged to the toilets must face her alleged attacker every day.