Education

After being excluded for two years, Wandile, 8, starts school

KZN child was denied education because he has no birth certificate

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Brief | 25 February 2020

Our children are not safe at school, picketers tell Western Cape Premier

Equal Education activists picketed Alan Winde’s state of the province address in Mitchells Plain

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Brief | 21 February 2020

Mounting pressure on families living at PE school to relocate

Principal says occupation is a threat to the survival of his school

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News | 19 February 2020

North West schools call off week-long shutdown

Department promises to start constructing new school

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Brief | 17 February 2020

Parents shut down Eastern Cape school over teacher shortage

“It is almost seven years now encountering the same problem” says SGB

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News | 14 February 2020

Khayelitsha schools demand security guards and metal detectors

Province says that it has allocated money for security; condemns protest during school hours

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News | 13 February 2020

Minister instructs schools to enrol undocumented children

Angie Motshekga has sent a circular to schools to comply with a ruling by the High Court

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Brief | 13 February 2020

Deaf children must wait, says Eastern Cape Department of Education

School gutted by fire won’t be fixed until 2023-4

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News | 12 February 2020

Parents shut down five North West schools

Police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters and the education circuit manager had to be escorted out of the area

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News | 10 February 2020

Union rivalry disrupts teaching at KZN school

Conflict between NATU and SADTU has been ongoing at Emzamweni High

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News | 7 February 2020

Unpaid asbestos removal workers close primary school

“We ask for material and we are told we will share. They buy things in single boxes. Something is not right here,” says worker

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Brief | 6 February 2020

Parents try to shut down school with bullying problem

Education department has referred complaints to circuit manager

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Brief | 5 February 2020

Mthatha school has been waiting 18 months for pit toilets

Learners use an open field, teachers go to neighbouring houses

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News | 5 February 2020

Zimbabwean who got seven distinctions has started university

“We are overwhelmed by the generosity of donors and ordinary people whose contributions will change Triphin’s life”

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Brief | 4 February 2020

Parents refuse to let children go to school in “moving coffin”

“Go to hell with this skorokoro bus” Port Elizabeth parents tell driver

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News | 4 February 2020

Schools threaten to shut down if government doesn’t build a new one

“Officials promised us heaven and earth”

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News | 4 February 2020