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Mafia-style corruption syndicates have infiltrated various levels of government, which receive millions in salaries.

Gauteng’s no-fee schools face water and electricity cutoffs after the provincial education department abruptly shifted responsibility for unpaid utility bills, leaving already-struggling communities ...

More than 26 000 cases of child abuse and neglect were reported in the 2024-25 financial year, up from 23 732 during the same period last year, Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe has said.

Watch: Education Secretary Linda McMahon confronted in hearing over funding cuts 04:06. Washington — President Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for it to ...

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The Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education was halted in court Thursday, as a federal judge blocked the government’s efforts to move its operations to other agencies ...

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday issued an injunction blocking the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education and ordering that fired employees be reinstated ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to reinstate more than 1,300 U.S. Department of Education employees. "The Department must be able to carry out its functions and its ...

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Thursday temporarily reinstated hundreds of Education Department workers laid off by the Trump administration and blocked the president's executive order ...

Madi Biedermann, the Education Department’s deputy assistant secretary for communications, said the administration would immediately challenge the decision while taking aim at the judge.