Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga confirmed the empty teaching posts at schools across the country recently. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The Citizen
This means that learners from Grade 4 through to matric will gradually be given the option to learn content in their mother tongue. Furthermore, Motshekga explained that the new batch of pupils in 2025, from grade 4 will go through their entire primary schooling education in their home languages. Motshekga said that sign language and Indigenous non-official languages would gradually be developed to realise multilingualism.
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