Education
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
News | 20 July 2021
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
News | 9 July 2021
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
Law | 5 July 2021
ECD staff, social workers, and SASSA tellers could be vaccinated soon, says Minister Zulu
ECD staff remain sceptical, demand Zulu commits to timelines
News | 2 July 2021
Eastern Cape parents build their own school
Baleni Senior Secondary School near Xolobeni is raising funds to build classrooms and other facilities
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Daniel Steyn
News | 30 June 2021
Anger over exclusion of ECD centres from teacher vaccinations
Early childhood development centre owners say they are “the forgotten sector”
News | 25 June 2021
Teacher “temporarily removed” after sexual assault allegation
Gauteng education department is investigating following protests by parents
Brief | 22 June 2021
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
Brief | 9 June 2021
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
Law | 4 June 2021