10 000 parents successfully apply for schooling in first minute
The provincial education department has urged parents not to wait until the last minute to apply for school places.
Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi speaks during a media briefing at Mahlube Secondary School in Mamelodi East on 16 October 2017. The MEC’s visit follows an alleged sexual assault of a pupil of the school by one of the school’s private security guards. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
In the first minute of the department of education’s (GDE) online school admission system 10 000 success application have been completed.
“We are very pleased and we are monitoring the system and are confident that we will be able to handle the 30 000 applications per minute,” GDE spokesperson Steve Mabona said at the Atteridgeville Community Centre on Monday.
However, Mabona requested parents not to wait until the last minute to apply for school places.
“It’s a very important learning tool for us, it doesn’t discriminate and because it’s linked to the Home Affairs system it knows identity numbers,” Gauteng MEC of education Panyaza Lesufi said after assisting a parent to apply.
– African News Agency (ANA)
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