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Schools

Activists call for school closure for the year

29th July 2020 Vincent Lali 0

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.

Parents want schools to reopen when it’s safe

6th July 2020 Mzi Velapi Lilita Gcwabe 0

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 […]

Fear as Covid-19 plagues learning and teaching

3rd July 2020 Lilita Gcwabe 0

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 […]

No fee schools have no laboratories for science classes

16th January 2019 Mzi Velapi 0

Iequality in education is evident in the lack of laboratories for the teaching of science in poor schools

Schools threaten children of foreign nationals with expulsion

14th August 2017 Bernard Chiguvare 0

Several foreign nationals staying in Kraaifontein are not sure whether their children will continue learning after they received warnings from schools that they should get refugee permits even when born in South Africa.

Western Cape Education wants schools to raise funds from the sale of alcohol

3rd August 2017 Unathi Tuta 0

The proposal to amend a bill that could allow for the selling of alcohol on school premises, has not been welcomed by many in the Western Cape Province. This is after the provincial Department of Education proposed this bill as a means of raising funds for schools. Elitsha asked some of the different parties for their views on the matter.

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