CYRIL RAMAPHOSA
CORRUPTION during a national disaster is a particularly heinous type of crime, and perpetrators are going to be dealt with decisively and harshly. It...
KEVIN WATKINS
‘The beautiful thing about learning’, the great blues guitarist BB King once wrote, ‘is that no one can take it away from you’.
Born...
NOMPUMELELO MOHOHLWANE
INTERNATIONALLY, education theory favours mother-tongue instruction and recommends that schooling should begin in the language the child knows best, often their mother tongue.
Even...
THEBE MABANGATHE latest consultations between the Department of Basic Education and teacher unions over whether schooling should continue and in what form was always...
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA
THE old saying that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ comes to mind when I think about the resilience and ingenuity shown by...
Dr AVIVIT CHERRINGTON
AN education system that is truly inclusive seeks to foster a culture of competence and belonging by recognising the strengths, rather than...
THE PANDEMIC has disrupted higher education international activities and the financial models on which universities increasingly depend. But the previous model was already problematic,...
YOUTH DAY is an annual national holiday in South Africa which commemorates the 1976 uprising by black learners against an unjust and inequitable apartheid...
TSHILIDZI MARWALA
THE FUNDAMENTAL need for social and physical distancing during Covid-19 has made it imperative that we hasten our adoption of the 4IR. Perhaps...