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Nompendulo Ngubane
Protests by learners and parents at Umthombo Senior Secondary School in Mpophomeni, Pietermaritzburg, have entered a third week. Teaching stopped on 24 April.
Last...
Yamkela Ntshongwana
Young children are forced to use a field as a toilet at Ntshingeni Senior Primary in the Eastern Cape school, while teachers turn...
Thuletho Zwane
Victor Oladokun’s grandfather was a cocoa farmer. His grandfather lived in a small village in Nigeria.
“But all through his life, my grandfather never...
Bernard Chiguvare
Zimbabwean families caught between the departments of Home Affairs and Education are resorting to buying fake documents in order to register their...
Julia Madibogo
Skeem Saam actor Cornet Mamabolo has achieved his dream of building a library in his village, Maripathekong, in GaMolepo, Limpopo.
Mamabolo, 28, who plays the...
Inside Education
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga on Wednesday tabled her department’s budget where she spoke of budget cuts, funding for infrastructure and the change...
Bongekile Macupe
The Eastern Cape education department predicts it will have eradicated all mud schools in the province by 2022 — six years later than...
Bongekile Macupe
Grade R teachers in KwaZulu-Natal were paid several days late this month — highlighting the fact that these foundation-phase educators have yet to...
Vincent Lali
Last week angry parents refused to vacate a school in Khayelitsha, demanding their children be admitted. “They crammed their kids into classrooms...
