Education

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

Protest shuts down overcrowded school

Parents demand temporary classrooms to accommodate learners who were sent home

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Brief | 24 January 2020

R77 million school construction project stalled since 2018

Public Works says Eastern Cape Education Department has not been paying bills

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News | 24 January 2020

Township schools run sports events in the street

MEC tells schools to apply for Lottery funding

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Brief | 24 January 2020

Fifteen-year wait for KwaNobuhle bridge finally over

Construction underway on a new bridge where dozens of learners cross river daily

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Brief | 24 January 2020

Are our matric results really improving?

A close look at the statistics raises troubling questions

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Analysis | 22 January 2020