Port Elizabeth parents shut down school in anger at education department
With a teacher-learner ratio of over 40 to 1, they accuse government of failing to listen to their requests for three additional teachers
Brief | 12 May 2017
What does it take to get the Eastern Cape Department of Education to fix a school?
Nearly three years later, a school damaged in a storm remains broken
News | 11 May 2017
Port St Johns murder: call for better psychiatric assessment of prisoners
Former prisoner admits to killing four-year-old nephew
By Natalie Pertsovsky and Monwabisi Silanda
Brief | 11 May 2017
Residents in fear as street lights fail
Memories of serial killer haunt Butterworth village
Brief | 10 May 2017
Over 1,000 learners shut down PE school
Students accuse education department of failing to respond to their grievances
Brief | 5 May 2017
The school where children kneel on the floor and use chairs as desks
I would love to have my own desk, says grade one learner
News | 4 May 2017
Zuma must go now, Pityana tells Port Elizabeth crowd
ANC MPs urged not to “hide” during parliamentary vote
News | 28 April 2017
Systemic “failure in Eastern Cape education”
Thousands march to education department in King William’s Town on Freedom Day
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and GroundUp Staff
News | 28 April 2017
Port Elizabeth’s biggest taxi rank has no toilets
“The infrastructure is now an eyesore and dilapidating.”
News | 26 April 2017