South Africa has a slew of service-delivery problems, most notably in the water and electricity sectors. The time for promises is over: what the country needs is action
Many children with special needs have never seen the inside of a classroom, as there are no schools where they live that cater to them. It’s extremely disheartening, particularly as access to education is a constitutional right
A broken municipality and a four-year crisis forces residents to consider desperate choices, such as
trading sex for water
There is nothing radical or revolutionary about burning down university property while claiming to be fighting for access to education
Despite promises of relocation, two months after floods people in Mamelodi are still living in a church. Bongekile Macupe and Delwyn Verasamy went to talk to the learners who are trying to get on with school while living in a loud and alien environment
My colleagues and I were talking about our experiences as first-year students and how things can get particularly difficult if you come from a rural or township school. This discussion took place while universities in the country were registering new students. In no time their lectures will commence. This column is dedicated to all first-year […]
Despite a court order, the education system is failing learners who do not have documents, both those born here and those from other countries
Graduation at the ‘Harvard of Africa’ nearly didn’t take place — because the university ran out of gowns
Malcolm Williams has been suspended following the death of grade 8 learner Enoch Mpianzi
Last week my helper’s daughter started grade 8 at a girls’ high school in Soweto. She told her mother years before going to high school that she wanted to attend a girls school because she did not want to deal with boys bullying her. But her first week at the girls’ school is not what […]