Activists call for school closure for the year
Community organisations and activists that favoured the closure of schools differ over whether Grades seven and twelve should return to school in the Western Cape.
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Dismissed workers thrown deeper into poverty
The workers say that they now live in poverty after they asked for what is due to them and for better working conditions.
Parents want schools to reopen when it’s safe
A group of parents and community activists in Bishop Lavis and Khayelitsha have reiterated their position that learners should only go back to school when […]
“My dignity was stripped” – Bulelani Qolani
A video showing Bulelani Qolani being dragged naked by the police went viral, attracting widespread condemnation. He says that he was treated in the most inhumane way possible.
Fear as Covid-19 plagues learning and teaching
The chilling deaths of three teachers from different schools in Khayelitsha due to the coronavirus and the general unsanitised schooling environment reported by the Khayelitsha […]
SADTU accepts classroom assistants idea
Two education stakeholders say they are not opposed to the introduction of classroom assistants that would facilitate lesson plans for teachers that need to be working from home due to covid-19 vulnerability.
Employers failing to provide adequate PPE
Workers and unions continue to be on the defensive under covid-19 conditions as many employers are putting their profits ahead of workers’ health and safety.
Parents shut down schools in Khayelitsha
The WCED has condemned the shutting down of schools by parents demanding that the schools be deep cleaned after teachers test positive for covid-19.
The food crisis and hunger pandemic
The measures taken by government to slow the spread of COVID-19 have unmasked the face of racialised and gendered inequalities hiding in the folds of democracy.
KEF says it’s still unsafe for learners to return to schools
The KEF says that the Western Cape Education Department has no plan to deal with COVID-19 as the schools re-open while shifting responsibilities to schools.
Parents picket against school re-opening
When the Minister of Education announced last week that Grades 7 to 12 learners would be returning to school from 1 June, Bishop Lavis Action Committee sounded the alarm that schools were not ready and called for a boycott.
Plan to dampen Khayelitsha corona hotspots underway
Khayelitsha is the worst affected township in South Africa’s epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic with infections spreading through residential clusters or hotspots.