Education

Children walk over an hour and wade across a river to get to Fort Beaufort school

The bridge to Oakdene Primary washed away about 15 years ago

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Brief | 3 February 2025

New Cape Town crèche is being built from tyres

Goal50 in Heideveld will be made from 5,000 tyres and other recycled waste

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Photo Essay | 3 February 2025

Western Cape schools feel the squeeze after cuts in teacher posts

Teachers and principals tell GroundUp how their schools are coping

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News | 31 January 2025

Night studies pay off for Dunoon matriculant

Sange Dastile studied in the early morning in the one-room house he shares with his mother and brother. Now he’s off to Stellenbosch University to study medicine.

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News | 29 January 2025

Learners sit on the floor at this old and overcrowded Ekurhuleni school

Erasmus Monareng Secondary has dilapidated classrooms and is short-staffed

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News | 28 January 2025

Here’s what’s happening with Johannesburg’s libraries

Some have been closed for years but dates have been set to re-open a few of them

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Brief | 24 January 2025

New school for blind learners delayed

The school is one of only six in Limpopo catering to visually impaired and blind learners

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News | 23 January 2025

Another school year starts with 90 learners to a classroom in Limpopo

Renaissance and Musina High grade 8 classes are bursting due to inaction by government

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Brief | 22 January 2025

No-fee Gauteng school accused of demanding money for stationery

Coercing donations out of parents at no-fee schools is unlawful, says Equal Education Law Centre

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Brief | 20 January 2025

Parents block enrolment at new primary school in Kraaifontein

They want learners transferred from the old Solomon Mahlangu primary school which is in a terrible condition

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Brief | 17 January 2025

21-year-old arrested in matric marks leak

Unlicensed shotgun with ammunition seized in search

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Brief | 17 January 2025

Children miss school as uniforms destroyed in Philippi fire

Mother of three says she can’t afford new uniforms until the end of the month

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Brief | 15 January 2025

Education department investigates illegal sale of matric marks

Edumarks offers results early to NSC students for R100

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Analysis | 13 January 2025

Press ombud rules on Pretoria school race row articles

Parents at Pretoria High School for Girls complained about two articles by the Daily Maverick

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Law | 17 December 2024

Reading is Kwaai: high school teacher starts mobile library for learners

Nigel Mortley takes books to Cape Town schools that do not have libraries

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News | 10 December 2024

SA schools clinch top spots at international netball tournament

Paarl Gimnasium won gold and Leifo Iziko Combined School won bronze in Singapore

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Brief | 6 December 2024