Education

Learners must get meals during Covid-19 pandemic, court orders

Minister and MECs to provide detailed plans within a month

This school for children with special needs was stripped bare by looters. Now the learners won’t even get meals

Golden Steps school in KwaZulu-Natal will not be able to re-open after the break

Xenophobia alive in some schools, human rights meeting is told

Matric children of immigrants born in South Africa also battle to get IDs so that they can enrol in tertiary education, but Home Affairs is trying to fix this

As many as 750,000 children have dropped out of school during the pandemic

School attendance is at the lowest level it has been in 20 years

Equal Education goes back to court to force government to feed hungry school children

Minister Motshekga and eight provincial education MECs in contempt of court, says NGO

ECD staff, social workers, and SASSA tellers could be vaccinated soon, says Minister Zulu

ECD staff remain sceptical, demand Zulu commits to timelines

Eastern Cape parents build their own school

Baleni Senior Secondary School near Xolobeni is raising funds to build classrooms and other facilities

Anger over exclusion of ECD centres from teacher vaccinations

Early childhood development centre owners say they are “the forgotten sector”

Teacher “temporarily removed” after sexual assault allegation

Gauteng education department is investigating following protests by parents

Special needs school in Makhanda will have to wait another three years at least

Ten years after a court order, Education Department has finally acquired the land

Failure to fix pit latrines in Limpopo schools “outrageous”

Equal Education says there were 472 schools with pit latrines in 2019, and that grew to 515 in 2020

Parents shut down schools and clinic in Pietermaritzburg

They are demanding that a principal be fired

Parents shut down school over inflated rent

Governing body says R138k per month building is unsuitable for schooling

Tax blow for parents of children with special needs

SARS proposes that parents should no longer claim tax relief for special needs school fees

Eastern Cape MEC warns of system collapse because of unpaid school water bills

Schools urged to provide food parcels for learners

Children are missing meals on days they are not at school because of Covid-19 shifts