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19 May 2013
                       
 
 
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17 May 2013
 
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, DA Shadow Minister of Basic Education, on Minister Motshekga missing deadline to gazette infrastructure norms and standards (17/05/2013)
STATEMENT
The Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga has failed to meet the 15 May 2013 deadline to draft and publish the revised regulations of the minimum uniform norms and standards for public...
 
 
23 Apr 2013
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, DA Shadow Minister of Basic Education, states that DA will ensure that Department adheres to its promise to identify and discipline participation in planned marches (23/04/2013)
STATEMENT
SADTU and COSATU’s calls for Grade 10 to 12 learners and teachers to stay away from schools tomorrow and join them in their planned illegal march to Parliament and other locations across the...
 
 
15 Apr 2013
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, DA Shadow Minister of Basic Education, on the Department's absence of a mechanism to regularly monitor access to textbooks for all learners in South Africa (15/04/2013)
STATEMENT
A reply to a DA parliamentary question has revealed that the Department of Basic Education has no mechanism in place to regularly monitor access to textbooks for all learners in South Africa. I...
 
 
10 Apr 2013
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, DA Shadow Minister of Basic Education, notes Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s announcement that her Department intends to downgrade its intervention in the Eastern Cape (10/04/2013)
STATEMENT
The DA notes Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s announcement that her Department intends to downgrade its intervention in the Eastern Cape. I will write to the Chairperson of the...
 
 
29 Mar 2013
 
SA: Statement by the Parliament of South Africa, on the Basic Education budget workshop (29/03/2013)
STATEMENT
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education held a fruitful two-day workshop in Pretoria to interrogate the budget of Department of Basic Education. The workshop focused on areas such as Early...
 
 
13 Mar 2013
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, DA Shadow Minister of Basic Education, states that a comprehensive and effective pregnancy policy is needed in schools (13/03/2013)
STATEMENT
Reports that an estimated 45 000 learners fall pregnant each year stresses the need for an effective and holistic learner pregnancy policy.
 
 
05 Mar 2013
 
SA: Statement by the Parliament of South Africa, Basic Education committee briefed on textbook delivery (05/03/2013)
STATEMENT
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education today received a status update from the Department of Basic Education on the delivery of textbooks in South Africa, particularly in Limpopo.
 
 
27 Feb 2013
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, DA Shadow Minister of Basic Education, states that Minister Motshekga must introduce performance contracts to reduce teacher absenteeism (27/02/2013)
STATEMENT
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga must urgently take steps to introduce teacher performance contracts in our education system to curb teacher absenteeism.
 
 
13 Dec 2012
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Basic Education, on the international comparative assessment reports on South Africa's teaching quality (13/12/2012)
STATEMENT
The recently released TIMSS and PIRLS reports that provide an international comparative assessment of mathematics and reading data indicate that South Africa must improve teacher quality and...
 
 
03 Dec 2012
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Basic Education, welcomes the Annual National Assessment results (03/12/2012)
STATEMENT
We are however seriously concerned about the very poor performance in mathematics by learners in Grade 6 and 9. Mathematics scores in fact get progressively worse the higher the grade. The average...
 
 
02 Nov 2012
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Basic Education, on the maths and science education model in South Africa (02/11/2012)
STATEMENT
In the World Economic Forum (WEF) Financial Development report released this week, South Africa was placed last for the quality of our maths and science education. We ranked 62nd out of the 62...
 
 
22 Oct 2012
 
SA: Statement by the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education, wishing the Grade 12 learners well for the final National Senior Certificate examinations (22/10/2012)
STATEMENT
The examinations get underway today and end on 28 November 2012. The results will be released on 3 January 2013. Ms Hope Malgas, Chairperson of the Committee, is confident that the Department of...
 
 
02 Oct 2012
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Basic Education, demands urgent debate on basic education annual report (02/10/2012)
STATEMENT
The 2011/2012 Annual Report of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) perpetuates the growing trend of government’s use of smoke and mirrors to deny the true state of education in South Africa
 
 
31 Jul 2012
 
DA: Statement by Annete Lovemore, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Basic Education, declaring that Limpopo catch-up plan ignores textbook crisis (31/07/2012)
STATEMENT
The Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) academic catch-up plan for Limpopo learners downplays the impact of textbook delivery failures and has an over-reliance on study-guides as a substitute...
 
 
04 Jul 2012
 
DA: Statement by Annette Lovemore, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Basic Education, on Limpopo textbook commissions (04/07/2012)
STATEMENT
Task teams established to investigate the textbook crisis in Limpopo must identify the root causes of the debacle and should not be allowed to degenerate into an exercise of blame shifting to save...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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