How to improve your marks

Tip #3:Talk to your teachers

Your teachers know you best, so it’s worth talking to them when you’re drawing up a plan of action for improving your grades. Ask them where they think you need to improve, and they’ll probably have some advice on how you can go about it. Coupled with the advice in the rest of this article, this should allow you to tailor an action plan to your personal situation.

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Today's Birthdays:










Lukumbuka Kisongo (Grade 8)
Bonolo Nchabeleng (Grade 8)
Kalyne Radeby (Grade 11)
Keorapetse Sebigi (Grade 11)

1978: South African police close the investigation into the death of Steve Biko

1977: A Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.

1954: On this day in 1954, lawyer Thurgood Marshall scored a landmark victory as the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

1900: The South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking

1838: SA sugar magnate Sir Hulett is born

South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 32.9% in the first quarter of 2023 from 32.7% in the last quarter of 2022. One worrying trend is that 85,000 jobs were lost in private households, which would be domestic staff and gardeners. This suggests middle-class households are financially strained while others are immigrating.

Data unveiled on Tuesday by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) showed the unemployment rate edged up to 32.9% in Q1 of this year compared with 32.7% in the last quarter of 2022 when the economy contracted by 1.3%.  
While the number of employed persons rose by 258,000 to 16.2 million in the first three months of the year compared with the previous quarter, the unemployment rate still increased because of a flow from the “not economically active category”.  
“It was observed that a large number of persons moved from the ‘not economically active’ category to ‘employed’ and ‘unemployed’ statuses between the two quarters, which resulted in an increase of 0.2 of a percentage point in the unemployment rate to 32.9%,” Stats SA said. 

Considering the sheer scale of the power crisis which is shredding economic growth while simultaneously fuelling inflation because of the costs businesses incur to keep the lights on — a classic case of what economists term stagflation — one supposes that the number could have been worse.  

But an official unemployment rate of almost 33% remains a national tragedy and the data highlighted a worrying trend for some of the country’s poorest and most vulnerable workers — a decline in employment in private households, which would mean domestic workers and gardeners.  

“Employment gains were observed in the formal sector (up by 209,000), the informal sector (up by 107,000) and agricultural sector (up by 27,000), while losses were observed in private households (down by 85,000) in Q1 2023,” Stats SA said.  
Indeed, of the five out of 10 broad sectors that had job losses in Q1 2023 compared with the previous quarter, private households had by far the most, with the 85,000 figure dwarfing trade, which had the second-highest losses at 28,000.