“South Africa will be in ‘big trouble’ if it cannot fix the quality and efficiency of its education systems”, says outgoing FirstRand Chief Executive, Sizwe Nxasana, who aims to focus more of his energies on the newly formed National Education Collaboration Trust – which he chairs – purposefully established to strengthen partnerships between business, civil society, government and labour to support the education goals of the National Development Plans.
Question and Answer session at the TNA Business Briefing with the Minister of Basic Education and her Deputy.
Performance at district levels came into sharp focus after the release of 2014 matric results when Basic Minister Angie Motshekga and her deputy, Mohamed Enver Surty, outlined the interventions made to improve learning and teaching.
The Leadership Platform podcast on Cliff Central with Adriaan Groenewalt, and Chief Editor of City Press Newspaper, Ferial Haffajee, discusses leadership in South Africa (SA). Ferial Haffajee mentions Sizwe Nxasana, Chairman of the NECT, as one of the people that should lead SA for his leadership that’s beyond self-interest, and has public interest at the centre of his being.
Minister Motshekga visited Mt Frere on 11 February to assess progress in the district concerning education since the minister’s last visit in 2012.
Despite KZN coming eighth out of nine provinces in the 2014 matric exams, Mary Metcalfe believes our teachers can turn things around this year
