 Goten Education Department promises no glitches for 2019 online applications. Johannesburg, the Goten Education Department will go live with its 2019 online applications system for grade 1 and 8 pupils on Monday. The online portal saw problems in 2016, but the process was a lot smoother last year. The department's Steve Mavinis says applications will close at the end of May. We have enhanced the system. We'll be able to have 30 hits per second, which means parents won't have technical glitches.