Thabo Mohlala's Profile

Thabo reports for the Teacher newspaper, a Mail & Guardian monthly publication.

Apart from covering education stories, he also writes across other beats.

He enjoys reading and is an avid soccer and athletics fanatic.

Thabo harbours a dream of writing a book.

'We are treated unfairly'

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Mpho Thibedi* has a personality that naturally qualifies her to work with young and fragile minds. This serves her well as an early childhood development (ECD) teacher at a primary school in Meadowlands Zone One.

Learners go high-tech

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Two primary school girls have confirmed that digital intelligence and creativity are synonomous with the post-millenium generation.

Hope springs eternal

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Bophelo Mogashoa is a two-year-old girl living with her parents, Boitumelo and Jabu Kubheka, in Diepkloof Zone Five in Soweto. She looks like any other child her age, but there is one significant difference: She is deaf and her parents discovered her condition only by chance.

ECD remains neglected

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The department of education is dragging its feet in tackling the massive backlog in the early childhood development (ECD) field which was inherited from the apartheid government, according to experts and practitioners in the sector.

Schools' (r)evolution

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A clash between secular and religious conscience could unfold in South Africa's education system -- and different interest groups are set to line up against one another. The teaching of evolution to grade 12 learners from next year might trigger an uproar among South African parents, teachers and religious sectors.

Setas to be cut down to size

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The recent reported failure by sectoral education and training authorities (Setas) to spend millions of rands allocated to them to deliver skills development and training mandates has given fresh impetus to calls to reduce their number from 23 to five. Since their inception in 2000, the Setas have recorded few successes in addressing the skills weaknesses in the labour market.
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