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The Citizen
15-07-2025
- General
- The Citizen
Here is when the winter school holiday will end
Here is when the winter school holiday will end After a three-week winter break, schools are set to reopen on Tuesday, 22 July, following the official holiday closure on Friday, 27 June. While many learners stayed home even earlier after completing exams — effectively extending their holiday — it's back to the books next week. For matriculants, however, the break was anything but restful, with many attending extra classes to prepare for the upcoming trial examinations in the third term. Here are terms set out: Te pressure is mounting fast: trial exams are just weeks away, usually starting in late August or early September, serving as a crucial rehearsal for the final exams. Schools will then close for the December holidays on Wednesday, December 10, marking the end of the fourth and final term. Learners and parents are urged to gear up for the busy months ahead. With just 100 days until the start of the 2025 Matric examinations, the thousands of students expected to write are expected to buckle down and study. Also read: Elderly woman dies after jumping from Atterbury bridge on N1 Do you have more information about the story? Please send us an email to [email protected] or phone us on 083 625 4114. For free breaking and community news, visit Rekord's websites: Rekord East For more news and interesting articles, like Rekord on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Instagram or TikTok. At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
IOL News
16-06-2025
- Politics
- IOL News
Youth Day, June 16: Comparing 1976 to 2025
Police watch as pupils demonstrate in Soweto during the 1976 uprising. Image: IOL archives By Adv Mahlodi S. Muofhe Let me detour for a moment from the collective amnesia of many South Africans who believe stoically that the Soweto Secondary and High School students on that fateful 16 Wednesday June 1976 day when we took to the streets of Soweto in the cold morning to march in protest, we were marching to demand jobs or job opportunities from the white apartheid economy which thrived in its business endeavours because the protectionist apartheid labour laws enabled it to do so. Far from it. We were in our teens when we took the revolutionary steps to march in protest against the then Bantu Education system which was hellbent on domesticating us, as black students. The apartheid government in all its forms of diabolical anti-transformative education polices had already succeeded in deploying our parents to "kitchen girls and garden boys" at their places of work by feeding them the rotten education syllabus. The apartheid government contemporaneously commenced with their policy which implored that all black students in schools in South Africa from Form One to Form Three (JC) then, would have to study their content subjects implying that mathematics, physical science, geography, biology and history would have had to be taught in Afrikaans, the language we detested as that of our apartheid oppressors language which we neither understood nor comprehended. We who were, at the time in 1976 in Form Four and Form Five, were exempted from learning these content subjects in Afrikaans. The (apartheid government's) sole purpose of imposing Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in black schools wasn't to educate us for the future so that upon completion of our tertiary or vocational educational studies, we could also be creators of jobs and job opportunities, it was meant to condemn to the world of perpetual job seekers as we would have dropped out from school without having grossed Form Five (Matric). During that period in 1976, we barely had dreams about entering the job market. We had genuine ambitions to complete our primary to high school education system so that we could either go to various universities or technical colleges to acquire more professional knowledge in preparation for us to fully participate in building our democratic South African economy post the attainment of our new democratic South Africa which we knew would dawn in our lifetime since in underground structures of our then banned liberation movements like the ANC and PAC, some of us were already moles thereof. That our economy is misfiring and not performing optimally is as a consequence of inter alia our neglect back then as South African of some of the 1976 cohort of students who fell through the cracks post June 16, and found themselves drowned by the apartheid economy which remunerated them poorly such that when they became family persons, others couldn't afford to educate their children all the way to universities and technical colleges as a result, their children became hasslers and that process replicated itself so much that out of 20 countries globally with the highest unemployment rate of youth, we (South Africa) came at number four with 49.14% ( We didn't preach the importance of going to school then vigorously. We are continuing in the same trajectory today in the name of the youth of Soweto June 16, 1976 where we want the youth of today to think that they must go out there and look for jobs and job opportunities which are not there. We fought for quality education in 1976. Critical essential education to match the needs of our economy is what we should embark on vigorously. Our youth that is those who succeed to summit university qualifications and technical qualifications, often study qualifications which are not fit for purpose the outcome of which keeps on increasing the pool of the high number of unemployed youth in South Africa. It now not an anomaly to see students who have just qualified as medical doctors, lawyers and accountants queuing at various robots in the City of Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town carrying placards indicating that they have completed their degrees and yet they cannot find employment. This is a crisis which requires that South Africans must put their heads together with the leadership of our institutions of higher learning and try to cure the problem of mismatch of our education system with what our economy needs. * Adv Mahlodi S. Muofhe, admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa. ** The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of IOL or Independent Media.
New Indian Express
09-06-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Lop Partap Singh slams AAP of sidelining Punjabis, calls Sugarfed recruitment policy deceitful
CHANDIGARH: Senior Congress leader and opposition leader Partap Singh Bajwa on Monday slammed the AAP government in Punjab, accusing it of a 'deliberate and deceitful attempt' to sideline the Punjabi language and deprive local youth of job opportunities in the recruitment for 166 posts in Sugarfed Punjab. Bajwa claimed that the AAP government initially attempted to dilute the requirement of Punjabi language proficiency by allowing candidates who hadn't passed Punjabi in Matric to appear for the examination, on the condition that they clear a basic Punjabi test during their three-year probation. "It was a clear attempt to recruit non-Punjabis by stealth. Only after a massive public outcry and media backlash did the government take a panicked U-turn and declare Punjabi compulsory again. This is not governance, it's deceit,' Bajwa said. He accused the AAP government of trying to sneak in policies that betray Punjab's linguistic and cultural ethos, only to reverse course when caught red-handed. 'This pattern has become a hallmark of the AAP regime, quietly undermining Punjab's interests, then staging a course correction to save face,' Bajwa stated.
News18
27-05-2025
- General
- News18
Jharkhand Board 10th Result 2025 Declared On jac.jharkhand.gov.in, Girls Outshine Boys
Last Updated: JAC Jharkhand Board 10th Result 2025: Students can check their results online from 12:30 PM on and JAC 10th Result 2025, Link: The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) has declared the Jharkhand Board Matric Results today, May 27, 2025. Students can now check and download their results online from 12:30 PM onwards on the official website – and Students will be required to use their roll code and roll number. JAC Jharkhand Board 10th Result 2025 Live Ramdas Soren, the Minister of School Education and Literacy, announced the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) Class 10 results for 2025. This year, around 433944 students applied for the JAC Class 10 board exam, and 431488 appeared. The overall pass percentage stands at an impressive 91.71% with 395755 students passing the exam. Girls outperformed boys in the results, continuing the trend of strong academic performance among female students in the state. Number of students secured first division: 2.21 lakh Number of students secured third division: 17,521 How To Check JAC 10th Result 2025? First Published: May 27, 2025, 11:55 IST
India.com
27-05-2025
- Science
- India.com
JAC Class 10th Result 2025 Declared At jac.jharkhand.gov.in- Check Direct Link, Pass Percentage Here
JAC Result 2025: The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) declared the Class 10 board exam results today, May 27, 2025. As per the official announcement, the results released during a press conference at 11:30 AM at the JAC auditorium in Ranchi. Students will be able to view and download their Jharkhand Board Matric Result 2025 online starting from 12:30 PM at the official website — The JAC Class 10 results will also be accessible via DigiLocker. Once announced, students can visit and select the Jharkhand Board to view their marks. This year, the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) conducted the Matric and Intermediate board exams from February 11 to March 3, 2025. The Class 10 exams took place in the morning session (9:45 AM to 1:00 PM), while Class 12 exams were held in the afternoon shift (2:00 PM to 5:15 PM). Practical exams for Class 10 students were held from March 4 to March 20, 2025. Similarly, practicals for Class 12 Science, Commerce, and Arts students were also conducted during the same period. JAC Result 2025: Steps to download here Visit the official result portal at On the homepage, click on the link for the Class 10 (Matric) Result 2025. Enter the required details, such as your roll code and roll number, then log in. Your Jharkhand Board Class 10 Result 2025 will be displayed on the screen. Check and download it for future reference. JAC Matric Result 2025; direct link to check marks memo here The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) was compelled to hold re-examinations for the Class 10 Science and Hindi subjects after reports of question paper leaks emerged. The original exams were cancelled when the leaked papers began circulating widely on social media platforms. In 2024, the JAC Class 10 exams recorded an impressive overall pass rate of 90.39 percent. Girls achieved a higher success rate with 91 percent, surpassing the boys' pass percentage of 89.7 percent.
