School libraries are central to a successful learning and reading programme in a school, particularly in South Africa where outcomes-based education (OBE) is the norm. OBE is a resource-based methodology which means that both educators and learners are reliant on access to a range of resources for the teaching method to be successful,” says Joy […]
A school that started 113 years ago as a one-learner outfit in the house of a German pastor named Kuschke has grown into the renowned Deutsche Schule zu Johannesburg (DSJ) with almost 1000 learners. International events helped fashion the school, with the flood of German immigrants following the gold rush to Johannesburg in the late […]
Motshidisi Tsuke wakes up every morning to teach the tired and hungry-looking children at a farm school on the security-tight farm of Barnsvlei in the Free State. After travelling 60km to school, Tsuke has to wait with the learners for the farmer to open the main gate ‘at his convenience” to gain access to the […]
Relatively new – and often misunderstood – kids on the education block are the Further Education and Training (FET) colleges. Established by the FET Act in 1998, the 150 institutions formerly known as technical colleges went through a process of change to re-emerge as 50 FET colleges. So what are FET colleges? Are they for […]
South Africa will host the thirty-second annual conference of the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) this year. The five-day conference, to be held in Durban in July, also incorporates the seventh international forum on research in school librarianship. The theme of the conference is school libraries: ‘breaking down barriersâ€. This, says IASL, reflects ‘the […]
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/ 18 December 2002
Two-and-a-half-year-old Sanele Thanga is no different from any other ”terrible two” — active, naughty, loud and experimental — except that his home is a prison. His bedroom is a ward lined with beds and cots.
Millions of South African teenagers appear to be heeding calls to practice safer sex if statistics released recently by health authorities are anything to go by and the future of the South African youth may not be as gloomy as most think.
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/ 26 January 2001
Tebogo Bilal Monkhe recites the Lord’s Prayer and sings Christian hymns with his fellow pupils every morning at Eketsang High School in Katlehong.