NGOs warn latest budget will have bad outcomes for education
Equal Education say underfunding will cause even more overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and learners going without meals
News | 26 February 2021
Zimbabwean couple demand gay rights
Yet having fled Zimbabwe, they face “corrupt, homophobic and xenophobic” Home Affairs in South Africa, says NGO
News | 26 February 2021
Parents make desperate plea for placement, but schools are full
More than 8,600 Western Cape learners have not yet found places
News | 26 February 2021
Covid-19: Don’t put other people’s lives at risk, urges hospital cleaner
Thembelani Zake has had the disease and sees its effects daily in his work
News | 23 February 2021
Parents shut down high schools, demanding places for their children
“No learners will attend school while others don’t” says Kraaifontein community leader
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 22 February 2021
Still no answers to why police used a water cannon on people in a SASSA queue
Independent Police Investigative Directorate considering an investigation
Brief | 22 February 2021
“God always puts something out for us” says scrap collector
Even shack fires can be an opportunity
Brief | 22 February 2021
Eersteriver residents demand a local school
Parents reject department’s offer to transport 500 learners to Khayelitsha for schooling
By Vincent Lali
News | 19 February 2021
“The slow violence of malnutrition”
One in four children under five is undernourished and one in eight is overweight or obese, say researchers
By Tariro Washinyira and Elsabé Brits
News | 18 February 2021