Parents preparing to elect their school governing bodies now have a national election window: 1 to 31 March 2027. The notice sets the period, rather than a single voting day for every school.
Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube announced the dates in Government Gazette 55739, Notice 8181, published on 13 November. The signed notice is dated 30 October and says she consulted the Council of Education Ministers.
New governing bodies take over once elected
Newly elected governing bodies assume responsibilities as soon as they are declared freely and fairly elected, rather than waiting for the election period to end.
Individual school voting and nomination schedules are not supplied in the notice. Parents need the arrangements issued for their own school.
Contextual archive photograph of books, taken on 29 May 2013, not a school election or meeting. Photo: Trey Jones / Wikimedia Commons. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_books_stacked_on_a_table.jpg . Rights: CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ . Identifying cover text was removed by the photographer. Cropped and resized for display.
