A PROTEST march paid off for children at Mayibuye High School in Mpumalanga when the education department gave them what they wanted – chairs. The pupils marched about 12km to the Sikhulile circuit offices in Kanyamazane near Nelspruit last Thursday and demanded 405 chairs. On Monday, 217 chairs were delivered to the school in Daantjie […]
MPUMALANGA education MEC, Craig Padayachee, failed to attend a meeting on Thursday to address the locking out of over 1 000 rural children from primary school. The children of Ndlaphu Primary School near Nelspruit have not been able to attend class since Monday and matters grew worse on Wednesday when the gates were welded shut. […]
POLICEMEN were chased away on Tuesday when they tried to force open gates that had been welded shut at a rural school near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga. Over 1 000 children have not attended class since last Monday after a sub-contractor locked them out in an effort to force the education department to honour an outstanding […]
Mpho Mavi* is a thin, timid boy with white sores that dimple his belly and back. The marks bear testimony to the torture he suffered, allegedly at the hands of his teacher, her husband and two other men. The 13-year-old boy claims he was sjambokked, hung by his feet, burnt and nearly drowned after his […]
Mpumalanga teenager Willie Sibuyi dreams of being a scientist one day, or an aircraft engineer. He has already wowed his neighbours in Chochocho village with working models of a helicopter and satellite telephone built from scrap. But Sibuyi (17) knows that his dream will probably never materialise. He is one of tens-of-thousands of talented township […]
Learners at many Mpumalanga township schools are resorting to boycotts and vandalism to express their concerns. In just the last four weeks, three high schools have embarked on mass action for issues ranging from accusing a principal of witchcraft to not liking an acting principal. Seven pupils are facing criminal charges and 11 have been […]