Education
Over 100 learners squeeze into one room at this overcrowded school
Ketlane Primary School in Limpopo says its pleas for help from the provincial education department have gone unanswered
By Thembi Siaga
Brief | 20 February 2025
Khayelitsha school still without stationery
Western Cape Education Department has urged the formation of a school governing body to help deal with issues at the school
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 11 February 2025
Northern Cape learners can’t go to class because schools have no money
Lack of funding for food and electricity has forced at least one hostel to close
By Liezl Human
Brief | 11 February 2025
Explainer: BELA and its controversies
We unpick the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act that rocked the Government of National Unity
By Paula Ensor
Explainer | 4 February 2025
Children walk over an hour and wade across a river to get to Fort Beaufort school
The bridge to Oakdene Primary washed away about 15 years ago
Brief | 3 February 2025
New Cape Town crèche is being built from tyres
Goal50 in Heideveld will be made from 5,000 tyres and other recycled waste
Photo Essay | 3 February 2025
Western Cape schools feel the squeeze after cuts in teacher posts
Teachers and principals tell GroundUp how their schools are coping
News | 31 January 2025
Night studies pay off for Dunoon matriculant
Sange Dastile studied in the early morning in the one-room house he shares with his mother and brother. Now he’s off to Stellenbosch University to study medicine.
News | 29 January 2025
Learners sit on the floor at this old and overcrowded Ekurhuleni school
Erasmus Monareng Secondary has dilapidated classrooms and is short-staffed
News | 28 January 2025