Education

Nearly two million learners still not receiving meals at school

Education department is expected to submit a detailed plan to court this week

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News | 13 October 2020

The “Angels” who open their homes to children in need

These volunteers offer after-school care to hundreds of children

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Feature | 8 October 2020

Child carers plead for help from Social Development

Many in Port Elizabeth have not recieved a salary since March

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Brief | 7 October 2020

Learners are only attending this Uitenhage school once a week

Physical distancing impossible in current building, and department says construction on a new school can only be completed next year

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Brief | 30 September 2020

Hungry children go hunting to get food

Without daily school meals, children do odd jobs or hunt pigeons and rabbits to get lunch

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News | 16 September 2020

Who can perform at their best when they are using mud classrooms? asks Eastern Cape parent

Port St Johns school won’t be fixed for at least three years, says principal

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News | 10 September 2020

Over five million children are not getting their school meals

Department of Basic Education says situation will improve with schools returning

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Brief | 7 September 2020

“I don’t want my daughters to end up like me” says sugarcane worker

Nobuhle Mkhize with her five daughters and six grandchildren face the poverty trap

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News | 4 September 2020

Special needs learners return to classrooms without desks and windows

Education department says the previous contrator was fired for non performance

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Brief | 3 September 2020

These learners are not getting school meals because transport to school costs too much

School in Limpopo says at least 40 of its learners need scholar transport to collect meals

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News | 2 September 2020

Villagers have to carry their dead over a “dangerous” river

Children stay away from school when rains fill the river

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News | 1 September 2020

Thousands of long-term child centre jobs on the line

Early childhood development centres countrywide protest for assistance from Social Development Minister

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News | 21 August 2020

This Grade 11 learner walks 20 km to and from school daily

“By the time they get to school, they are tired, thirsty and hungry from walking”

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News | 18 August 2020

Poor quality food being given to learners, say activists

Angie Motshekga’s school feeding report slammed

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News | 6 August 2020

R300,000 lotto grant for school comes to naught because of criminals

“They only left stumps of goalposts,” says primary school principal

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Brief | 5 August 2020