Education

Dunoon artist brightens children’s lives

Sibusiso Dube has livened up the local library, mentored teens and earned acclaim for his graphite portraits

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News | 30 October 2025

Special schools in KwaZulu-Natal to stay closed

Parents demand buses, more staff and a hostel

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News | 23 October 2025

Zoning problem forces Cape Town school to close

Parents with children at Otters’ Creek Junior are scrambling to find space at other special needs schools

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News | 17 October 2025

Special schools closed in KwaZulu-Natal after education department fails to pay subsidies

76 schools closed by parents and the South African National Association for Special School Education (SANASE)

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Brief | 16 October 2025

IDT’s school project stalls as costs reach R198-million

Learners of Rivoni School of the Blind were promised a new building in 2019

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News | 3 October 2025

Teachers at Eastern Cape school give up their toilet to grade R learners

Jongikhaya teachers and learners share broken pit toilets

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News | 17 September 2025

Karoo learners in international robotics competition

Two teams from Carnarvon High School took part in the World Robot Olympiad Open Championship in Slovenia

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Brief | 16 September 2025

Parents shut down school for weeks

Gauteng Education MEC promises Nigel families a new primary school

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News | 4 September 2025

Storm damaged classrooms left roofless for six years

Ngqusi Junior Secondary school in Centane have been waiting for the education department to fix its classrooms since June 2019

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Brief | 3 September 2025

Teachers’ march disrupts schooling in Free State

Hundreds of SADTU members marched to the Thabo Mofutsanyana education offices to demand that the district director step down

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Brief | 22 August 2025

Iconic Joburg library reopens after years

But the City still has a list of public libraries that remain closed

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News | 12 August 2025

Crèches battle complicated registration process

More than half of Cape Town’s Early Childhood Development centres are unregistered

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Brief | 11 August 2025

More than 80 to a class at Elim High

The school has over 2,000 learners and has been asking for additional classrooms since 2007

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Brief | 7 August 2025

Blind children study in crumbling classrooms as new school project stalls

R168-million project in Limpopo was supposed to be completed in June 2024

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News | 17 July 2025

KZN government fails to pay crèches despite court order

Payments have been “sporadic and inconsistent”, says Legal Resources Centre

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Brief | 16 July 2025

Biologist turns real-life African scientists into superheroes

Justin Yarrow and his team have created a series of cartoons they hope will inspire the next generation of scientists

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News | 14 July 2025