Education

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Learners sent home as taps run dry at Eastern Cape schools

Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber to adopt over 30 schools to help with water saving measures

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News | 17 May 2021

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Researchers call for full reopening of schools after report shows more than half of children miss meals

The total lost days of meals could be as high as 133 out of 211 school days

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News | 13 May 2021

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Early childhood development centres protest over “virtually non-existent roll out” of relief fund

Social Development says it cannot disburse funds without the necessary verifications

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News | 13 May 2021

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Parents demand brick and mortar classrooms for rural Limpopo school

The provincial education department says construction will start during the 2022/23 financial year

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Brief | 10 May 2021

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Mfuleni’s “illegal” school struggling to cope

2,000 students have three toilets and one tap

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News | 5 May 2021

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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

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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

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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

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School children love this library

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

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Brief | 23 April 2021

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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Education department shuts down unregistered rural school. But parents say they cannot afford to send their children elsewhere

Volunteers did the teaching and the principal paid for the building

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News | 12 April 2021

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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

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Learners are taught outside at tiny rural school

District officials are visiting the school in Ndwedwe

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News | 8 April 2021