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Pretoria - Matrics at Ho%rskool Waterkloof in Pretoria have begun their final year of schooling aiming to beat the 60.6 percent pass rate achieved by last year's matrics.

Bloemfontein - Free State Premier Ace Magashule this morning visited Grey College in Bloemfontein to inspire teachers and learners to maintain the 100 percent pass rate achieved by the school last year.

Soweto - Gauteng Education MEC Barbara Creecy has assured parents that the department will accommodate all late registrations despite an expected learner influx.

Pretoria - The Gauteng provincial government has identified infrastructure development, in the form of intensive labour projects, as key to the province's job creation strategy.

Johannesburg - Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has encouraged learners to utilise all opportunities presented to them during their school career.

Taung - North West Premier Maureen Modiselle has assured learners and teachers that she would everything possible to remedy the situation at the school she found without a principal and a deputy.

Pretoria - The first day of school got off to a good start in most schools in Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria.

Pretoria - The Gauteng provincial government has turned to technology to improve the healthcare system.

Hazyview - Mpumalanga MEC for Education, Reginah Mhaule, has urged parents to take a direct interest in their children's education.

Cape Town - Zola Pahlana inherited a school with dilapidated buildings and teachers who didn't pitch for class. Seven years later Pahlana is a proud principal of a school with an 80 percent matric pass rate.

Thohoyandou - Five impoverished schools in the rural area of Thohoyandou in Limpopo have each received R10 000 worth of school books and cleaning materials.

Cape Town - Pupils and teachers at Groenvlei Secondary School were overjoyed on Wednesday when the MEC for Education, Donald Grant, pledged to help the school raise funds to build a school hall.

Johannesburg - While access to universities must increase, enrolment in colleges should double in the next five years, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande said on Wednesday.

Nzhelele - Limpopo's MEC for Public Works, George Phadagi, has urged Grade 12 learners at Mphephu High School near Nzhelele in Makhado to take their education seriously so that the school can improve its matric results.

Pretoria - The validity of a learner's licence has been extended from 18 to 24 months and driving licence tests may now also be taken on Sundays.