Education

Zimbabwean teachers in SA unpaid for months

Western Cape Education Department says Home Affairs is to blame

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Brief | 21 September 2018

8,000 school places blocked in Western Cape

Parents anxious their children won’t find a place next year

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News | 11 September 2018

Learners call for Western Cape education department to pull out of court case

National government has appealed Bhisho High Court ruling on minimum norms and standards

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News | 31 August 2018

Villagers start special needs day-care centre

Parents in rural Great Kei struggled to find suitable schools for their children with disability

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News | 28 August 2018

Pigs starve as agricultural school teeters on the verge of collapse

“There is so much red tape in this province you will get nowhere” says founder of Eastern Cape school

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News | 23 August 2018

Teachers demand safer schools in Khayelitsha

Protesters vowed to shut down schools if premier does not meet their demands

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Brief | 20 August 2018

Children must cross treacherous river bed on foot to go to school

The bridge over the river collapsed in 2005

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Brief | 20 August 2018

School sanitation: Ramaphosa accused of “pretending to care”

SA Human Rights Commission, Equal Education and SECTION27 respond to president’s SAFE initiative

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News | 15 August 2018

Uitenhage learners protest over teacher shortage

Learners say they have had no permanent maths and science teachers all year

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Brief | 15 August 2018

Girls expelled from school for kissing

Learners deny they kissed for 20 minutes

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Brief | 14 August 2018

Port Elizabeth school refuses to play in a township

Parent asked if it was “worth the risk”

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News | 3 August 2018

Grade 8 learner sent home for having Afro hair

We are not here for fashion parades, says principal

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News | 2 August 2018

School children sent home when taps run dry

Ndlelayabasha Primary in Pietermaritzburg is struggling with water shortages

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Brief | 27 July 2018

No more mud, asbestos, metal and wood: understanding the Equal Education court victory

Bhisho High Court emphasises that cabinet ministers have to explain all their decisions

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Law | 27 July 2018

We are ready for healing, says new Equal Education general secretary

Organisation looks to build on recent success while learning from mistakes

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Interview | 25 July 2018