Back in 2012, learners at Moshesh Senior Secondary School, about 35km from Matatiele in the Eastern Cape, contacted Equal Education (EE) about the abysmal conditions at their school. Last week, EE returned to Moshesh to see what had changed.
Olivia Murphy
Opinion | 10 June 2014
Sounds of the Khoikhoi language fill a hall at the Castle of Good Hope where classes to teach South Africa’s first indigenous language are held every weekend.
Yazeed Kamaldien
News | 29 May 2014
For all the special pleading by the major teachers’ union, Sadtu and the assertions by basic education minister Angie Motshekga that all is well, our schooling system is in crisis.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 26 May 2014
Sibongile Mbele is an Information Technology (IT) specialist from Khayelitsha. He owns a business that assists people in the township mostly with computer problems. At the same time, he tutors young people from ages five to fifteen.
Pharie Sefali
News | 13 May 2014
Education authorities have agreed to address students' demands after about 300 students from Sizimisele Technical High School in Khayelitsha tried to protest yesterday in the city centre, complaining of a lack of teachers. The protest was blocked by a heavy police presence.
Sibusiso Tshabalala
News | 7 May 2014
Representatives of political parties got a grilling from UCT students last night at a debate on the university campus.
Pharie Sefali
News | 24 April 2014
On April Fool’s day, GroundUp published a story which claimed that government had made it compulsory for teacher graduates to provide their services in non-model C government schools for one year.
Joshua Maserow
Opinion | 15 April 2014
Yesterday the Department of Education issued new regulations that make it compulsory for all new teachers to teach for one year in non-model C government schools. This is with immediate effect. It applies to graduates of all teaching colleges and post-graduate university courses in 2014.
GroundUp Staff
News | 1 April 2014
Gugulethu based community organisation, Township Youth Movement (TYM), have taken it upon themselves to open a second public library in the township.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 18 March 2014
Kinky Disco brought together youth from in and around Cape Town and hosted a one-of-a-kind electronic dance music party in Langa Township.
Zethu Gqola
News | 11 March 2014
A pensioner who only had two years of schooling taught himself to read and write, while his grandson, who has reached grade 9, can’t read.
Selby Nomnganga
News | 11 March 2014
A Zimbabwean woman, Sandra Chinyanga, is unhappy because her daughter was dropped from the Techno Girl Programme after three years of consistent participation. Now she has been told that her daughter should never have been allowed to join the programme, because she is an immigrant.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 5 March 2014
Manenberg is a township in the Cape Flats outside Gugulethu. The apartheid government originally created it to relocate Coloured families who had been forcibly removed from their homes. Today it often makes the news because of gang violence.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 28 February 2014
The Cape Town High Court has overturned its order that would have forced the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) to provide safety and security for five Manenberg schools.
Sibusiso Tshabalala
News | 26 February 2014
Two teachers at Vela-Langa Primary school in Upington are facing a disciplinary hearing today and tomorrow for teaching their grade two classes in SeTswana and Afrikaans.
Selby Nomnganga
News | 25 February 2014
Lesley Knight has been teaching at Edendale Primary School for 27 years. She has witnessed some of the worst incidents of gang violence in Manenberg.
Sibusiso Tshabalala
News | 25 February 2014