August 28
South Africa: Eastern Cape School Kept Results From Matriculant Because She Owed the School Money
Education department apologises to learner and arranges for the family to get the results Read more »
August 27
South Africa: Thousands of Teaching Posts to Be Cut in the Western Cape
Schools are expected to receive their 2025 staff allocations on Friday Read more »
South Africa: New School for Blind Learners Is Nearly Ready At Last
Construction of new Rivoni School for the Blind started in 2021 Read more »
August 26
South Africa: Can You Spell the Word That Decided This Joburg Spelling Bee Competition?
Dozens of learners from inner-city schools competed in the 2nd Windybrow Arts Centre Spelling Bee competition Read more »
August 23
South Africa: Taxi Bosses Demand Children Use Their Services to Get to School
But taxi association denies the letter is from them Read more »
August 21
South Africa: King Promises to Help As Extortion Hits Mthatha Schools
Syndicate closing down businesses and schools Read more »
August 14
South Africa: Learners Being Taught Under Trees As Limpopo School Waits for Classrooms to Be Fixed
Classroom block was destroyed by wind three years ago Read more »
August 08
South Africa: Eastern Cape Schools Battle Low Learner Numbers and Teacher Shortages
The education department wants to close some of these schools. But parents say they can't afford transport fees to other schools. Read more »
August 01
South Africa: Khayelitsha Parents Desperate to Find Special Needs Schools for Their Children
Some children are on a waiting list for years Read more »
July 29
South Africa: Boksburg School Hosts Massive International Marimba Festival
This year's International Marimba and Steelpan Festival featured a record 2,300 musicians from across South Africa and neighbouring countries Read more »
July 23
South Africa: Government Contractor Misses Yet Another Deadline On R123-Million Gauteng School
Construction of the project started in 2022 to accommodate the school's 1,200 learners Read more »
June 05
South Africa: Thousands of Special Needs Learners Still Not Placed At Schools
Parents of children with disabilities protested in May, demanding that government do more to help their children Read more »
May 16
South Africa: UCT Students Set Up Camp in Solidarity With Palestinians
A white sheet with hundreds of names of those killed in Palestine since October was draped down the Sarah Baartman Hall steps Read more »
May 14
South Africa: Wits Students Set Up Palestinian Solidarity Encampment
University senate expected to meet this week Read more »
May 10
South Africa: Refugee and Former Car Guard Graduates With a PhD
Albert Mpazayabo hopes his thesis on integration of refugees in South Africa will be taken seriously by the authorities Read more »
May 09
South Africa: Unpaid School Uniform Makers Occupy Gauteng Social Development Offices
Sewing co-operatives delivered thousands of school uniforms to learners in need, but the department is disowning them Read more »
May 08
South Africa: Protesters Demand Wits Take Public Stand On Gaza
Calls for "academic boycott of apartheid Israel" Read more »
April 29
South Africa: 14 Years After Court Order, Government Starts Building Special School in Makhanda
Amasango Career School's permanent premises to be completed by 2027 Read more »
April 18
South Africa: Illegal School in Limpopo Closed, but Parents Ask Why It Took So Long
Parents fear their children have lost years of education and will be held back Read more »
April 12
South Africa: Elections 2024 - What the Major Political Parties Say About Education
We sent questions to the ANC, DA, EFF, IFP, FF Plus, ActionSA, PA, MK Party and RISE Mzansi Read more »
April 11
South Africa: 131 Schools in Nelson Mandela Bay Robbed, Mostly At Gunpoint, in Five Months
Many teachers are afraid to report for duty Read more »
April 08
South Africa: Children Have to Use an Open Field As a Toilet At Mthatha Primary School
Zwelinzima Primary has 200 learners and 13 staff but no toilets Read more »
April 04
South Africa: Pit Toilet Eradication Deadline Missed By Limpopo Education Department
But department says it's 80% of the way there Read more »
March 25
South Africa: Cape Town School in the Dark Because It Owes Thousands to Eskom
A teacher at Vergenoegd Primary in Delft, Cape Town, says they discovered that the bursar office missed payments from August 2023 Read more »
March 21
South Africa: Action Threatened Against Unregistered School That Charges R850 Per Month
"The owner ... only cares about money, not the education of our children" says parent Read more »