Education

Minister instructs schools to enrol undocumented children

Angie Motshekga has sent a circular to schools to comply with a ruling by the High Court

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Brief | 13 February 2020

Deaf children must wait, says Eastern Cape Department of Education

School gutted by fire won’t be fixed until 2023-4

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News | 12 February 2020

Parents shut down five North West schools

Police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters and the education circuit manager had to be escorted out of the area

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News | 10 February 2020

Union rivalry disrupts teaching at KZN school

Conflict between NATU and SADTU has been ongoing at Emzamweni High

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News | 7 February 2020

Unpaid asbestos removal workers close primary school

“We ask for material and we are told we will share. They buy things in single boxes. Something is not right here,” says worker

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Brief | 6 February 2020

Parents try to shut down school with bullying problem

Education department has referred complaints to circuit manager

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Brief | 5 February 2020

Mthatha school has been waiting 18 months for pit toilets

Learners use an open field, teachers go to neighbouring houses

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News | 5 February 2020

Zimbabwean who got seven distinctions has started university

“We are overwhelmed by the generosity of donors and ordinary people whose contributions will change Triphin’s life”

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Brief | 4 February 2020

Parents refuse to let children go to school in “moving coffin”

“Go to hell with this skorokoro bus” Port Elizabeth parents tell driver

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News | 4 February 2020

Schools threaten to shut down if government doesn’t build a new one

“Officials promised us heaven and earth”

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News | 4 February 2020

Khayelitsha man makes lamps from plastic bottles

Siphamandla Ntshewula hopes his invention will help learners study

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Brief | 31 January 2020

Some immigrant children are still being turned away from schools

In spite of assurances from Home Affairs and Basic Education, children without documents are still battling

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News | 30 January 2020

Building stalled at yet another Eastern Cape school

Matric pass rates plummet, drop-out rates rise

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News | 29 January 2020

He studied for matric in a one-room shack shared with four others - and got 7 distinctions

Siyamthanda Mtyeku sometimes only had one meal a day

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News | 29 January 2020

Brilliant matriculant can’t go to university - because she’s Zimbabwean

Triphin Mudzvengi got seven distinctions and wants to study civil engineering

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News | 28 January 2020

Parents, learners shut down Port Elizabeth school

Construction delayed after Eastern Cape education department fails to pay building contractors

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News | 27 January 2020