Education
“When you return to class the smell of the poo remains in your clothes”
Pit latrines are a daily hazard in Eastern Cape schools
News | 18 February 2022
Crèches demand unpaid Covid relief funds
A year after applications for the relief funds opened, many Early Childhood Development centres are yet to be paid
News | 17 February 2022
Public schools shut down in Makhanda due to bungled payroll
School governing bodies say the education department failed to deliver stationery and did not pay teaching assistants
Brief | 16 February 2022
Protests halt first day of university lectures
Problems with NSFAS leave Nelson Mandela University students unable to register
News | 15 February 2022
Learners are sitting on the floor in this Upington school
Yet the MEC said schools in the Northern Cape were ready
Brief | 15 February 2022
Hundreds of learners’ schooling affected by a bad bridge
“Our municipality comes and pretends to be maintaining our roads” says Eastern Cape villager
News | 15 February 2022
Walking Bus volunteers demand pay and recognition
City says there’s no money in budget to pay them
By Vincent Lali
News | 14 February 2022
School’s dream dashed as donor fails to pay up
Rashid Khan promised tens of millions of rands to an Eastern Cape school but both he and the government have let the community down
By Mkhuseli Sizani and Tania Broughton
News | 14 February 2022
Bungled payroll leaves education assistants unpaid for two months in Eastern Cape
Audit underway to determine which of the province’s 40,000 education assistants were paid
News | 10 February 2022