Education

Eight provincial ministers miss court deadline for school feeding scheme reports

Nutritional needs of millions of children at stake

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Law | 4 August 2020

Unregistered ECD principals plead with government

“Some of our teachers are resorting to occupying vacant land because they have no money to pay rent”

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Brief | 31 July 2020

Education spending is falling. The Covid-19 budget has slashed it further

Yet schools are essential to the Covid-19 response

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Opinion | 31 July 2020

PE parents demand shutdown of schools

Department reiterates that only the national cabinet can close schools

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Brief | 23 July 2020

Two schools torched in protest for land

“They are threatening our future. This year is already hard with Covid-19” says matric student

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News | 23 July 2020

Learners demand solid classrooms after storm destroys prefabs

MEC says her department has acquired land in the area. Phased in occupancy could start in 2022

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News | 22 July 2020

Fix our schools, learners tell Eastern Cape Education Department

Equal Education has given the department two weeks to attend to schools with water and sanitation problems

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News | 22 July 2020

COSAS shuts down schools in Alexandra

“Pure criminality” says Gauteng Education Department

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Brief | 22 July 2020

School Governing Bodies order immediate shutdown of primary schools

But Eastern Cape Department of Education says only Cabinet has the authority to close schools

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News | 20 July 2020

Court finds that government failed to feed children

Education ministers must immediately roll out National Schools Nutrition Programme

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Law | 17 July 2020

Motshekga snubs teachers’ unions

Minister says she’s consulting, but unions say it’s not with them

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News | 15 July 2020

Children cross the Msunduzi to get to school

There are plans for a bridge but no timeframe

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Brief | 15 July 2020

Two years later: still no new toilets at Cofimvaba school

508 schools still without any sanitation in the Eastern Cape, says Equal Education

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News | 14 July 2020

“Illegal strike” says department as teachers down tools at Kraaifontein school

Teachers say they are fed up with working conditions under Covid-19

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News | 10 July 2020

Human Rights Commission monitor closes primary school

Three teachers test positive for Covid-19

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News | 9 July 2020

New LGBTQI+ draft guidelines for schools critically flawed say education activists

Western Cape Education Department is evaluating comments on its Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Guidelines

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News | 9 July 2020