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Western Cape Education Department

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 […]

Khayelitsha Education Forum disputes claims by WCED

14th February 2020 Mzi Velapi 0

The Khayelitsha Education Forum has vowed to continue with protests if their demands for security at schools are not met by the Western Cape Education Department.

Gugulethu school improves its physical science results

31st January 2020 Tandeka Bafo 0

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

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.

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