South African School Terms for 2025

Special School Holidays for 2025

In addition to the above school terms, with 43 days of rest (including weekend during school recess), the following are official special school days on which schools will be closed:

• 29 April 2025
• 30 April 2025
• 02 May 2025

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To check the SASSA Application Status CLICK HERE NOW.

You will be asked for your ID and the phone number you used to apply for the SASSA SRD grant of R350 per month. Once you submit this you will know your application status.

Payments for approved beneficiaries are currently been made. Remember you can change you paypoint from Post Office to the bank or a mobile money option such as CashSend, this is How to change SASSA SRD R350 grant payment method from Post Office to bank account or CashSend, click to read.

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How to change SASSA SRD R350 grant payment method from Post Office to a bank account or CashSend?

1. If you are an approved beneficiary of the SASSA SRD R350 Grant and you wish to change your banking details, please CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE SRD WEBSITE, once there scroll down until you find “How do I change my banking details”; enter your ID number and press “submit”.
2. An SMS containing a secure link, unique to you, will be sent to the mobile phone number with which you registered during application. Click on the link in the SMS and follow the instructions carefully. Should you select payment into a bank account, please ensure that you are the owner of the account. SASSA cannot pay your grant into another person’s bank account. Should you select the money transfer option via one of the major banks, please ensure that the mobile phone number on which you received the SMS is registered in your name. SASSA cannot pay your grant into a mobile phone number which is registered to another person. Please also note that the new banking details will only be used for future payments, after verification.

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How to apply for the SASSA SRD R350 grant?

There are five (5) ways to apply:

• Firstly, through the website at https://srd.sassa.gov.za;
• Through our WhatsApp line on 082 046 8553;
• The USSD line *134*7737#
• GovChat: https://govchat.app/login
• Facebook Messenger: https://www.facebook.com/govchat.org

Please note that an application should be submitted through only one of the above channels – it is not necessary to submit multiple applications. Confirmation will be received as soon as the application has been successfully submitted. 

SASSA encourages all applicants to conclude their applications when they start making the applications to avoid any technical challenges. 

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How to apply?

Noting that COVID-19 is still very much upon us, we will continue with measures to limit face to face interactions to manage social distancing and use the frontline application systems which had proven to be successful during the initial implementation of this grant. All applications will therefore be again done electronically/digitally and any of the following frontline application channels may be used; 

There are three ways to apply:

• Firstly, through the website at https://srd.sassa.gov.za;
• Through our WhatsApp line on 082 046 8553;
• The USSD line *134*7737#

Please note that an application should be submitted through only one of the above channels – it is not necessary to submit multiple applications. Confirmation will be received as soon as the application has been successfully submitted. 

We encourage all applicants to conclude their applications when they start making the applications to avoid any technical challenges. 

WITH REGARDS TO PROCESSING AND DISBURSEMENT SYSTEM: The system developed over the past year has been improved to manage the numbers of applicants and payments monthly. In addition, improvements continue to be made to improve the service to applicants. Applicants are also reminded that this grant is validated every month.  This means that any change to the financial circumstances of the applicant may result in the grant not being approved for subsequent months, or approved for some months but not all.   

WITH REGARDS TO PAYMENTS OF THE SPECIAL COVID-19 SRD GRANT, SASSA shall pay the Special COVID-19 SRD Grant into a bank account of the beneficiary. With applicants who are unbanked or do not have bank accounts, SASSA will pay through SAPO/Post Bank; or a Bank Mobile Money Transfers (such as CashSend).

Who qualifies for the SASSA SRD Grant in 2021?

THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR THE COVID-19 SRD GRANT, WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:

A Social Relief of Distress Grant of R350 per month as indicated in the Directions is payable for the period indicated therein to a person who is —

• (a)​ a South African Citizen, Permanent Resident or Refugee registered on the Home Affairs database and persons who are holders of special permits under the Special Angolan Dispensation, the Lesotho Exemption Permit dispensation and the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Dispensation, and asylum seekers whose Section 22 permits or visas are valid or were valid on 15 March 2020;
• (b) ​Currently residing within the borders of the Republic of South Africa;
• (c) ​above the age of 18 and below the age of 60;
• (d) ​unemployed;
• (e) ​ not receiving any social grant in respect of himself or herself;
• (f) ​not receiving an unemployment insurance benefit and does not qualify to receive an unemployment insurance benefit;
• (g)​ not receiving a stipend from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme and other financial aid;
• (h)​ not receiving any other government COVID-19 response support; and
• (i) ​not a resident in a government funded or subsidised institution. 

According to Minister Zulu, “Caregivers who are not receiving any grant on their own behalf will also have to apply for the special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant. We would like to reiterate that only those who meet the criteria and have no financial support from any source should apply for this grant. It is also important to emphasise that the previous SRD grant expired on 30 April 2021 and this means that all those who had previously applied must re-apply again, in order to enable us to assess their eligibility as we did every month during the previous period, and all applications will be treated as new applications every month.  However, each applicant need only apply once – thereafter the application will be considered monthly.”

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The Bursary Bin have received requests to confirm if the Funza Lushaka Teaching Bursaries are open for 2022 yet as some of our readers have seen calls for applications on social media.

We have sought confirmation and we can confirm that the Funza Lushaka Teaching Bursaries will only open on 1 October 2021 for 2022 applications.

We urge our readers not to be robbed or scammed by people that claim they process applications for Funza Lushaka.

The Bursary Bin will post and notify all our subscribers via email and WhatsApp on the day that applications open on the official Department of Education Funza Lushaka portal. To subscribe to our daily alerts on WhatsApp or Email visit bit.ly/BursaryBin

Don’t be scammed. Be vigilant.

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South Africans, Permanent Residents or Refugees registered on the Home Affairs system; who are resident within the borders of the Republic of South Africa; qualify for the R350 SASSA Grant paid per month in terms of the Special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant.

How to apply for the SASSA COVID-19 R350 Grant?

There are three ways to apply:

• Firstly, through the website at https://srd.sassa.gov.za;
• Through our WhatsApp line on 082 046 8553;
• The USSD line *134*7737#

Please note that an application should be submitted through only one of the above channels – it is not necessary to submit multiple applications. Confirmation will be received as soon as the application has been successfully submitted. 

We encourage all applicants to conclude their applications when they start making the applications to avoid any technical challenges. 

Applicants will need to provide the following compulsory information for processing of their applications:

• Identity Number/Department of Home Refugee permit;
• Name and Surname as captured in the ID (and initials);
• Gender and Disability;
• Banking details – Bank Name and Account Number;
• Contact details – Cell phone number;
• Proof of Residential Address.

Who qualifies for the SRD Grant?

• above the age of 18;
• Unemployed;
• Not receiving any income;
• Not receiving any unemployment insurance benefit and does not qualify to receive unemployment insurance benefits;
• Not receiving a stipend from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme; and
• Not resident in a government funded or subsidised institution.

For more enquires on this Grant call SASSA or visit their regional offices:

Application enquiries could be made by either calling SASSA National Call Center: 0800 60 10 11 or Email to: grantenquiries@sassa.gov.za

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Download the 2022 South African School Calendar

There are two calendars and school terms, one for Inland provinces (Gauteng, Free State, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West), and another for Coastal provinces (Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape and Western Cape).

INLAND: To download South Africa’s 2022 INLAND School Calendar CLICK HERE NOW

COASTAL: To download South Africa’s COASTAL School Calendar CLICK HERE

2022 School Term for South Africa

First Term: Inland schools will open on Wednesday, 12 January 2022 and close on Thursday, 17 March 2022. Coastal schools will open on Wednesday, 19 January 2022 and close on Friday, 25 March 2022.

Second Term: Inland AND Coastal schools will open on Tuesday, 05 April 2022 and close on Friday, 24 June 2022.

Third Term: All schools will open on Tuesday, 19 July 2022 until Thursday, 30 September 2022.

Fourth Term: Both Inland and Coastal schools will open on Tuesday, 11 October 2022 and close on 14 December 2022.

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In a notice to prospective applicants, UCT Registrar Royston Pillay, called on applicants to submit their Grade 11 final reports as part of their applications as these would be important in assisting the university to make conditional offers study.

The Executive Management team of Wits also issued a statement advising prospective students that NBT will not be a requirement for admission to study in the 2021 academic year. “After due consideration of the matter, and given the exceptional circumstances in which we find ourselves at this moment, we have agreed that the results of the NBTs will not be taken into consideration when students apply for the first year of study in 2021. This means that the NBTs will not form part of Wits University’s admission criteria for 2021 for students applying for the first time,” the team said in the statement, further stressing that this measure is for 2021 only.

NBTs go online

Meanwhile, the Centre for Educational Testing for Access and Placement (CETAP) has announced that it will now conduct the NBT tests online in July 2020. “Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are unable to offer national sessions during lockdown level 3. There is far too much uncertainty as to when the lockdown will ease and when venues will become available. The national sessions will only resume and be limited to certain venues once lockdown level 1 is reached. Kindly note at this point we cannot give any confirmed dates for such sessions and strongly encourage you to write the Online NBT,” says CETAP.

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How to check the R350 SRD Grant Application Status?

To check the SASSA Application Status CLICK HERE NOW.

You will be asked for your ID and the phone number you used to apply for the SASSA Relief grant of R350. Once you submit this you will know your application status.

Payments for June 2020 will be made at the same time with May 2020 payments for those who qualify. SASSA says they will pay the relief grants for most people in June 2020.

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