Zandile Bangani

Zandile Bangani was born and raised in Cape Town. She writes about matters pertaining to education and is committed to improving the level of education available to working-class and impoverished families.

Signing a path to freedom for the deaf

National Zandile Bangani - 18 Oct 2020

If South African Sign Language is recognised as one of the country’s official languages, it will considerably ease many of the deaf community’s problems of access, education and equality.

Graduates and their unemployment dilemma

Article Zandile Bangani - 7 Aug 2019

South African university graduates are willing to take menial jobs because of the dearth of suitable employment despite being highly educated

Domestic workers: overworked, underpaid and unprotected

Article Zandile Bangani - 1 Jul 2019

Armed with brooms and mops, domestic workers took to the streets to demand better wages, recourse to legal protection against unscrupulous employers

To read, play and eat cupcakes in Tembisa

Article Zandile Bangani - 14 Jun 2019

“We need more vernacular readers, who can encourage the kids to also want to learn their own languages”

Press Releases

Special Reports

Get Rewarded for banking with Standard Bank Mobile

special reports - 26 Nov 2020

Free data for your bank card spend every month will go that extra mile to help keep South Africans connected to their dreams

Special Reports

Introducing Greening the Future 2020

Staff Reporter - 26 Nov 2020

We highlight the work of those accelerating sustainable living in SA – at a vital moment for the environment

Special Reports

Western Cape SMBs look to technology to get them through pandemic

special reports - 25 Nov 2020

Many companies have over-capitalised on IT infrastructure in the past, and are looking for ways to access simpler, cheaper technology that cuts their costs

Special Reports

Land reform still a hot potato

special reports - 24 Nov 2020

The land has got to belong to all the people of South Africa, and many believe that there’s no other mechanism for that except expropriation

Special Reports

UP chemical pathology scientists develop ground-breaking nanobodies for Covid-19 detection and therapy

special reports - 24 Nov 2020

Nanobodies are smaller than conventional antibodies and easier to work with so they are ideal for good cheap sensitive rapid tests for Covid-19

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Inclusion as learned experience in higher education

special reports - 23 Nov 2020

Understanding the complexity of intersections between oppressions relating to race and gender is key to any commitment to creating a culture of inclusion and social justice

Special Reports

Local government in crisis: how it can be fixed

special reports - 20 Nov 2020

Local governments are supposed to promote non-racial development, in a decentralised manner, but the reality does not match up

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Covid-19 accelerates adoption of technology by the African property sector

special reports - 20 Nov 2020

It’s not the technology itself that is valuable, it’s the opportunities that it creates: this may be the perfect time for reinvention