‘God forbid! White people are moving into the townships! Crime will go up! Property prices will go down!” This was the greeting Wits doctoral fellow Detlev Krige received when he announced to his companion at a drinking hole in Rockville, Soweto, that he was about to become a neighbour. A recent conference revealed the extent to which <i>ikasi</i> and metropolitan cultures have crossed over, report Sizwe samaYende and Liz McGregor.
MORE than 60 Mpumalanga high school pupils crammed into a courtroom on Tuesday to face charges following Monday’s violent protest against a teacher who hit a boy. The pupils are from Sozama Secondary School in Mhluzi township, near Middelburg, and are charged with public violence and malicious damage to property. They were not asked to […]
A GROUP of angry Mpumalanga pupils ran riot on Monday and stoned teachers’ cars in protest against corporal punishment. Police arrested over 60 pupils from Sozama Secondary School at Mhluzi near Middelburg who also disrupted classes in the township’s other two schools, said police spokesman Captain Malcolm Mokomeni. He said the pupils were charged with […]
Twenty-five Northern Province schools are set to start teaching Ndebele, but there aren’t any textbooks. TWENTY-FIVE schools are ready to teach Ndebele as a home language for the first time in the Northern Province, but there are no textbooks, African Eye News Service reports. The language has been introduced for pre-school and grade one pupils […]
Waste paper usually lands in a rubbish bin, but at a rural Mpumalanga school it’s turned into special bricks that are used to make fire. The initiative is part of intensive waste recycling and environmental education at Mhwayi Primary School in Clau-Clau tribal trust near Nelspruit. The multi-award winning school uses the waste paper bricks […]
Terrifying incidents at schools around the country has resulted in a call for staff to be allowed to carry guns at school. A recent incident that has highlighted the vulnerability of educators involves school principal Lucy Lushaba (47) who was shot dead over the festive season. Lushaba, of Tiboneleni primary school in Daantjie tribal trust, […]
Initiation schools in Mpumalanga are still the sole responsibility of traditional leaders because the province has yet to enact legislation to regulate them. The province’s House of Traditional Leaders is currently drafting a policy on schools, which will eventually be passed by the legislature as law, says house representative Inkosi Mzingeli Mthethwa. ‘We’ve consulted with […]
Unscrupulous food suppliers are systematically stealing from starving children by plundering Mpumalanga’s R34 -million school feeding scheme. A forensic audit completed in January indicates widespread corruption by suppliers, teachers and, in some cases, even parents. Just one company supplying 80 schools in the Kabokweni district near White River, for example, stands accused of charging for […]
South Africa’s largest land rights movement, the 20-year-old National Land Committee (NLC), has been brought to its knees by ideological infighting, financial mismanagement and an exodus of member organisations. The crisis, which was set to be debated at an emergency board meeting on Thursday, has already frightened off the foreign donors who funded the NLC’s umbrella structure since its inception.
The 30-year deal spearheaded by Britain’s BiWater and signed in Mpumalanga’s capital Nelspruit in 1999 was supposed to rapidly expand basic water services into the region’s impoverished villages without placing a financial burden on the taxpayer.