Education
We visited these schools in 2013. We went back last month. Here’s what we found
Nine years after Zakes Mda and Thabo Makgoba were shocked by conditions in these Eastern Cape schools, there’s little sign of improvement
By Mkhuseli Sizani and Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 26 May 2022
Learners and teacher injured in school protest
Khayelitsha Grade 12s angry at cancellation of extra classes
News | 25 May 2022
Teen losing hope of finding a place in high school
Her grandmother says she’s has been to the Western Cape Education Department more than ten times over the past two years
News | 25 May 2022
A Cape Town teacher sexually assaulted a learner five years ago. He’s still teaching at the school
Education department says it will consider disciplinary steps after receiving the outcome of the criminal trial from the National Prosecuting Authority
News | 23 May 2022
Early childhood development: hundreds of centres are still waiting for their Covid money
More than 1,700 have not yet been paid out in the Western Cape alone
Brief | 11 May 2022
Court summons Education MEC over special needs school
MEC failed to comply with previous court ruling, says Judge
Brief | 10 May 2022
15 years after two men drowned, Fort Beaufort families are still waiting for a safe bridge over the Kat River
Parents keep children home from school when it rains
News | 28 April 2022
Labour department rules that classrooms at Limpopo school are too dangerous to use
Department closes down part of the school after the Department of Education failed to fix it
Brief | 26 April 2022
Parents block N2 to demand scholar transport
They say learners have not been able to attend school since January
Brief | 26 April 2022