Brief

Human Rights Commission visits school where learners use playground as a loo

Toilets are being repaired at Van Coller primary after parents shut down the school last week

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Brief | 20 January 2026

Unemployed teachers camp outside KZN education department

Department ignores them

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Brief | 19 January 2026

Gauteng battles to place learners

Many parents are disappointed with the schools they’ve been offered

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Brief | 16 January 2026

KZN school devastated by thunderstorms

SGB chair claims education minister promised to build new school. MEC Sipho Hlomuka has not answered our questions.

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Brief | 16 January 2026

Parents close Eastern Cape school where playground is used as a toilet

Toilets at the primary school in Komani have not functioned for six years

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Brief | 14 January 2026

Showdown outside Durban school over places for immigrant children

But it appears overcrowding is the main reason why children – both South Africans and immigrants – have not been placed

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Brief | 14 January 2026

Still no public toilets at Durban bus rank

Commuters and street vendors battle as public toilets at three sites still closed for renovations

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Brief | 14 January 2026

Philippi residents beat, stone and burn man to death for robbery

“People are fed up and disappointed with the police and the justice system, and are now forced to take the law into their own hands.”

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Brief | 12 January 2026

Patients wait four hours for an ambulance in rural KwaZulu-Natal

Rural hospitals’ allocated ambulances park 130 to 150km away

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Brief | 8 January 2026