Education
Researchers surveyed schools in a Gauteng township. This is what they found
Activists launch campaign against overcrowding
News | 29 November 2021
Young gardeners are building a fynbos corridor across the Cape Flats
Greenpop’s project aims to “bring Kirstenbosch” to schools
Photo Essay | 22 November 2021
Principals are drowning in the education department’s admin demands
“I live in perpetual fear of missing deadlines and other principals say the same”
News | 12 November 2021
Willowvale is where government projects go to die
“If we want things done here, we either protest or do them ourselves” says a resident of this part of the Eastern Cape
News | 9 November 2021
Equipment worth more than R6 million stolen from technical school in Gqeberha
Parents and learners demand the the department provide proper fencing around the school
Brief | 21 October 2021
Education department promises to fix “falling apart” school, but parents are sceptical
Community has little confidence left in the Limpopo education department which has to provide decent sanitation to nearly 1,500 schools
Brief | 15 October 2021
Bus transformed into mobile classroom for learners in Langa
The 42-seater Atlas Digibus has laptops, two teaching stations, and Wi-Fi for online teaching programmes like coding
Brief | 15 October 2021
Stinking, broken, overflowing: these are the pit toilets Eastern Cape learners are expected to use at school
1,500 schools in the province still have pit toilets and some schools can’t afford to get them emptied
News | 15 October 2021
Court ordered Eastern Cape education department to build 65 classrooms in four schools within 90 days, in February 2020. So far, only 17 have been built.
Fed-up parents build their own classrooms
By Mkhuseli Sizani and Marecia Damons
News | 12 October 2021