A new educational trust is giving street kids a good education. SIPHO Mathebula’s earliest memories are of being beaten by his stepfather every day with a sjambok, of running away from home every chance he got, and of stealing money from his mother. By the time he was six or so, he was living on […]
Khoisan languages will soon be taught in schools in the Northern Cape THE Northern Cape is set to introduce the teaching of Khoisan languages into the school curriculum, in a move that will counter decades of subjugation of these indigenous tongues. MEC Tina Joemat-Pettersson announced in this year’s budget speech to the provincial parliament that […]
Obituary: Head of the Northern Cape Department of Education, Kevin Nkoane, was killed in a car crash last month TEACHERS, education officials, politicians and civil servants in the Northern Cape were shocked last month by the untimely death of the head of the provincial Department of Education, Kevin Nkoane, in a car crash. More than […]
As the number of children orphaned by Aids escalates, many hard-pressed NGOs are being forced to pay orphans’ school fees to prevent them from being excluded – despite the fact that exclusion on financial grounds is illegal. In the Ingwavuma District, for instance, which lies close to the borders of Swaziland and Mozambique in the […]