Education
Rural Eastern Cape children left to hitchhike to school
About 80 learners from the Enon farming community have been without scholar transport this year
News | 6 March 2026
Learners stand on bus steps with doors open to get to school
Government-contracted buses are chronically overloaded
Brief | 2 March 2026
Learners at this overcrowded school are being taught outside
“When the rain stops, we wipe our desks and continue with the lesson”
News | 26 February 2026
Labour Court refuses to enforce school principal’s reinstatement
Judge finds no “exceptional circumstances” to justify Wesley Neumann’s immediate return to Heathfield High
News | 24 February 2026
Drivers given 60 days to comply with strict scholar transport rules
Hundreds of operators marched in Johannesburg on Friday against the Gauteng transport department’s new regulations
Brief | 16 February 2026
Battle over former Heathfield principal’s return
Western Cape Education Department argues reinstatement would cause “chaos at the school”
Law | 13 February 2026
80% of NSFAS students are first years
Many students drop out or find alternative funding
Chart by The Outlier. Text by GroundUp Staff.
Charts | 13 February 2026
Unregistered private schools leave learners and parents in limbo
School owners in Limpopo say registration process is slow and opaque
By Thembi Siaga
News | 12 February 2026
Learners taught in mud brick classrooms built by parents in 1958
Overcrowded school in Limpopo has waited years for new classrooms
By Thembi Siaga
Brief | 5 February 2026