Education
Learners sent home as taps run dry at Eastern Cape schools
Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber to adopt over 30 schools to help with water saving measures
News | 17 May 2021
Researchers call for full reopening of schools after report shows more than half of children miss meals
The total lost days of meals could be as high as 133 out of 211 school days
News | 13 May 2021
Early childhood development centres protest over “virtually non-existent roll out” of relief fund
Social Development says it cannot disburse funds without the necessary verifications
News | 13 May 2021
Parents demand brick and mortar classrooms for rural Limpopo school
The provincial education department says construction will start during the 2022/23 financial year
Brief | 10 May 2021
Mfuleni’s “illegal” school struggling to cope
2,000 students have three toilets and one tap
By Vincent Lali
News | 5 May 2021
Education department back in court over pit latrines
SECTION27 says the department only plans to eradicate pit toilets in Limpopo schools by 2030
News | 4 May 2021
50% of learners don’t get meals when they’re not at school, says Equal Education
Some schools in Gauteng and the North West are struggling to feed learners who are unable to get to school
News | 28 April 2021
The only weightlifting club in Soweto is changing lives
Started in 2019, Lifting Dreams is running out of space
By Julia Evans
Photo Essay | 26 April 2021
School children love this library
Lungile Moferi’s tuk-tuk doubles as a mobile library
Brief | 23 April 2021