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Siviwe Gwarube

Siviwe Gwarube is Minister of Basic Education in South Africa’s government of national unity.

Latest Work

I will not let corrupt networks steal the future of 13 million SA children

27 March 2026

I will not let corrupt networks steal the future of 13 million SA children

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Siviwe Gwarube

10 December 2025

Why South Africa’s strategic reorientation of its basic education system is now irreversible

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Siviwe Gwarube

1 September 2025

Education is too important for government alone to decide the way forward

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Siviwe Gwarube

15 July 2025

We will have to swallow bitter medicine to fix the financial health of our education system

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Siviwe Gwarube

18 November 2024

Here’s my promise — by 31 March 2025 all pit toilets in SA schools will be eradicated

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Siviwe Gwarube

10 November 2024

Non-racialism is a value to be taught and learnt at schools and not a blunt instrument to be wielded by those in power

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Siviwe Gwarube

30 July 2021

Coercive conversion therapy must be done away with

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Siviwe Gwarube

31 October 2019

Parliament again found wanting on fulfilling its critical oversight role

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Siviwe Gwarube

5 April 2019

The stakes could not be higher for journalism in the 2019 national elections

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Siviwe Gwarube

President Zuma’s May Day mess a sign of things to come

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Siviwe Gwarube

4 June 2014

Behind the scenes with Ms Mazibuko

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Siviwe Gwarube

13 June 2013

Jeffery’s low blow: That fatuous ‘fat’ comment

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