Education
Learners are only attending this Uitenhage school once a week
Physical distancing impossible in current building, and department says construction on a new school can only be completed next year
Brief | 30 September 2020
Hungry children go hunting to get food
Without daily school meals, children do odd jobs or hunt pigeons and rabbits to get lunch
News | 16 September 2020
Who can perform at their best when they are using mud classrooms? asks Eastern Cape parent
Port St Johns school won’t be fixed for at least three years, says principal
News | 10 September 2020
Some Eastern Cape learners are not getting their full school meals
Some meals only contain samp
News | 9 September 2020
Over five million children are not getting their school meals
Department of Basic Education says situation will improve with schools returning
Brief | 7 September 2020
“I don’t want my daughters to end up like me” says sugarcane worker
Nobuhle Mkhize with her five daughters and six grandchildren face the poverty trap
News | 4 September 2020
Special needs learners return to classrooms without desks and windows
Education department says the previous contrator was fired for non performance
Brief | 3 September 2020
These learners are not getting school meals because transport to school costs too much
School in Limpopo says at least 40 of its learners need scholar transport to collect meals
News | 2 September 2020
Villagers have to carry their dead over a “dangerous” river
Children stay away from school when rains fill the river
News | 1 September 2020