Given South Africa’s history of colonialism and apartheid, learners are asking why Israel is called an apartheid state but teachers have been told not to talk about power, oppression and resistance
		
	 
	
		
		Interventions aimed at reducing violence in schools often have the opposite effect
		
	 
	
		
		Reopening of schools seems to be less about the teachers, parents and students and more about desperate attempts to rescue our failing and unsustainable capitalist economy
		
	 
	
		
		The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the raw realities of South Africa’s under-resourced public schools