The parents of Mfuleni “tent school” students say that they are still unhappy with the arrangements made to accommodate their children. Now, community leaders are threatening to “evict” Bardale Primary School’s principal, if more classroom space is not made available.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 11 March 2015
Four years after President Jacob Zuma promised sanitary towels for poor women, there is no sign that his promise has been kept.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Brief | 10 March 2015
A protest in Cape Town city centre by students from Philippi High School over the lack of infrastructure and classrooms at their campus was violently dispersed by police officers on Friday morning.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 6 March 2015
An independent school in Manenberg, one of Cape Town's most gang-ridden communities, had better matric results last year than any state school in the area has ever achieved. But educationalists are divided as to whether it is a model that should be scaled up.
Barbara Maregele
Feature | 2 March 2015
Zonnebloem Boys is a primary school in District 6 in Cape Town. In March, along with all South African public schools, it will hold elections to decide who will represent its parents, teachers and learners on the School Governing Body (SGB). Much is at stake in these elections: SGBs have the potential to ensure that quality education is distributed more equally across our population.
Frances Eberhard
Opinion | 20 February 2015
Bishop Sibonile Gcilitshane and his wife, Pastor Lindiwe, created a life line for children who have special educational needs when they opened a skill centre in Nomzamo township near Strand.
Zintle Swana
News | 18 February 2015
About 50 students from Sizimisele Technical High School in Khayelitsha left school on Friday morning to march on the Western Cape Department of Education over a shortage of teachers.
Daneel Knoetze
Brief | 14 February 2015
On Monday 9 February, five schools took part in an athletics competition at the Blue Downs stadium. Here is a selection of photos.
Photos by Masixole Feni
News | 11 February 2015
Today, Equal Education is protesting outside the Public Investment Corporation because it is an investor in the Curro private school chain. DORON ISAACS, Equal Education's Deputy General Secretary, explains his organisation's concerns with Curro.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 10 February 2015