Austerity under fire as Godongwana pauses fuel levies and low-cost housing
Ahead of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement by the finance minister, protesters called for a pro-poor budget.
Equal Education
A Changing World, an Unchanged Injustice: Demanding innovation that delivers dignity and safe toilets
Learners still face deadly pit toilets as government delays, neglect and budget cuts undermine safe sanitation.
Lack of toilets at Limpopo schools a reality and indefinite future
The government has again failed to reach the deadline to eradicate pit latrines at schools.
Bilharzia infections plague Limpopo schools
Poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water is suspected to be behind the outbreak in Limpopo.
Hundreds protest over planned teacher cuts in the Western Cape
Classes in poor schools are expected to grow even bigger as the education department plans to cut teacher posts.
Pit toilets in schools a constant worry for Limpopo parents
Defying court orders and self-imposed deadlines, the Limpopo education department has failed to eradicate pit toilets at schools in the province.
Despite a court order, the WC Education Department is still failing some learners
Schools are busy with mid-year exams while some learners are still waiting to be placed in the Western Cape.
Court orders WCED to find schools for all unplaced learners
Victory for Equal Education, parents and learners as High Court orders Western Cape Education to place learners within 10 days.
Budget cuts, poor placement management and school incapacity keep learners out of school in Western Cape
Hundreds of learners are still not in schools five weeks after the start of the school year.
Calls for revolution at Social Justice Assembly
The author argues that the Social Justice Assembly needs to overcome the social and political distance between the poor and the NGOs championing their cause.
Shortage of teachers plagues EC schools
While some schools in the Eastern Cape may have sufficient teachers, they may not have a library or laboratory – like Gcinubuzwe Combined School in Jansenville.
E Cape mud schools falling apart
Parents and SGBs of mud schools in Port St Johns say they have tried in vain to get government to build proper classrooms.
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