South Africa
Back to school: These are the school terms for 2023─── 12:00 Wed, 21 Dec 2022
Pupils in inland provinces will return to their school desks on Wednesday 11 January for the new school year, while coastal schools will reopen on Wednesday 18 January.
In the inland provinces of the Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West, the first term will run until Friday 24 March and will include a special school holiday on Monday 20 March, ahead of Human Rights Day.
News24 reports for the coastal provinces of the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape and Western Cape, the first term will run until Friday, 31 March and will also include a special school holiday on Monday, 20 March, ahead of Human Rights Day.
Pupils in all provinces will start the second term on Wednesday 12 April. There will be a special school holiday on Friday 28 April, after Freedom Day, and the term will come to an end on Friday 23 June.
The second half of the school year will start on Tuesday 18 July. The third term will end on Friday 29 September. The fourth term will run from Tuesday 10 October to Wednesday 13 December.
Pupils will also have days off for public holidays over the Easter weekend (Friday 7 April to Tuesday 11 April), Worker's Day on Monday, 1 May, Youth Day on Friday 16 June, Women's Day on Wednesday 9 August, and Monday 25 September, following Heritage Day.
Next year's school year will consist of 199 teaching days, with an additional four days assigned to administrators between the start and end of the school year.
This will see teachers returning to schools two days before pupils – on Monday 9 January in inland provinces and Monday 16 January in coastal provinces. The school year for teachers will end on Friday 15 December 2023.
