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Otjozondjupa education authorities are alarmed by 789 school dropouts in 2025, citing migration, pregnancies and social challenges the government and communities push for stronger pupil retention.<\/em><\/p>\n Regional education director Gerhard Ndafenongo says 789 of the region’s 52 112 pupils dropped out in 2025, with most cases recorded in lower grades, particularly Grade 1.<\/p>\n Grade 1 recorded the highest number of dropouts with 98 pupils, followed by Grade 8 (52) and Grade 9 (34) across the region.<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Otjozondjupa education authorities are alarmed by 789 school dropouts in 2025, citing migration, pregnancies and social challenges the government and communities push for stronger pupil retention. Regional education director Gerhard Ndafenongo says 789 of the region’s 52 112 pupils dropped out in 2025, with most cases recorded in lower grades, particularly Grade 1. Grade 1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,3723,38961,21525,8032,6486,4706,724,257,919,16201,11761,254,37373],"class_list":["post-223549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-dropouts","tag-flags","tag-hit","tag-migration","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-otjozondjupa","tag-pregnancies","tag-retention","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steenkamp"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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