Education

Mfuleni’s “illegal” school struggling to cope

2,000 students have three toilets and one tap

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News | 5 May 2021

Education department back in court over pit latrines

SECTION27 says the department only plans to eradicate pit toilets in Limpopo schools by 2030

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News | 4 May 2021

50% of learners don’t get meals when they’re not at school, says Equal Education

Some schools in Gauteng and the North West are struggling to feed learners who are unable to get to school

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News | 28 April 2021

The only weightlifting club in Soweto is changing lives

Started in 2019, Lifting Dreams is running out of space

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Photo Essay | 26 April 2021

School children love this library

Lungile Moferi’s tuk-tuk doubles as a mobile library

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Brief | 23 April 2021

Equal Education demands release of KZN learner transport policy

“It’s difficult to concentrate in class after a long walk” says learner

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Brief | 23 April 2021

Department of Education has failed to release vital software to schools

Government schools are unable to capture marks or produce reports

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News | 21 April 2021

“Illegal” school teaches hundreds of learners education department hasn’t placed

Mfuleni Combined School is run by volunteers and based in an illegally occupied college

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News | 16 April 2021

Over 5,000 learners still not placed at schools in the Western Cape

Education department says many of the learners applied late

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News | 13 April 2021

Parents burn tyres and picket outside education department over incomplete school

No schooling until department pays the R8 million it owes the construction company, say parents

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Brief | 8 April 2021

Learners are taught outside at tiny rural school

District officials are visiting the school in Ndwedwe

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News | 8 April 2021

Education department promises bicycles to school pleading for scholar transport

School Governing Body member claims school has been asking for transport for ten years, but Eastern Cape government denies it

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Brief | 6 April 2021

Over a thousand learners protest for school to be recognised

Schools shut down in Mfuleni by protesters

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News | 1 April 2021

Parents protest at Eastern Cape education department after broken promises

“We are here to give the District Director seven days to respond to our memorandum of demands or he will see the wrath of the parents”

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News | 29 March 2021

Principal accused of child abuse makes court appearance

Eastern Cape MEC for Education visits school and family

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Brief | 25 March 2021