Education
Mother without ID struggles for years to enrol children at school
The departments of Home Affairs and Social Development are currently helping the Kuilsriver family
News | 12 August 2021
Rural families battle to get water although they live near a dam
“How unfair is that? It’s a joke,” says resident
News | 6 August 2021
July riots caused more than R100 million in damage to schools in KZN and Gauteng
Education department says this worsened its backlog on repairing over a thousand schools vandalised during lockdown
News | 4 August 2021
Covid-19: Unions should push harder for teachers to get vaccinated
It’s almost never a reasonable choice to not get vaccinated
GroundView | 26 July 2021
Court fines former Eastern Cape principal R4,000 for lowering learner into pit toilet
Lubeko Mgandela pleaded guilty to a charge of child abuse in the Tsolo Magistrates Court on Wednesday
Brief | 22 July 2021
Learners must get meals during Covid-19 pandemic, court orders
Minister and MECs to provide detailed plans within a month
News | 21 July 2021
This school for children with special needs was stripped bare by looters. Now the learners won’t even get meals
Golden Steps school in KwaZulu-Natal will not be able to re-open after the break
News | 21 July 2021
Xenophobia alive in some schools, human rights meeting is told
Matric children of immigrants born in South Africa also battle to get IDs so that they can enrol in tertiary education, but Home Affairs is trying to fix this
News | 20 July 2021
As many as 750,000 children have dropped out of school during the pandemic
School attendance is at the lowest level it has been in 20 years
News | 9 July 2021