Education development centres could be the key to much-needed teacher support THE need for a rethink on the ways in which support for qualified teachers is offered and made available is acute. The first instance of this need is provided by figures quoted in the 1999 Education for All 2000 Assessment: South Africa Report. Examples […]
A NORTHERN Province primary school teacher appeared in court on Tuesday after he allegedly shot a man in a bar early Sunday morning. Masekela Vincent Malesa, 33, of Namakgale township near Tzaneen was not asked to plead on an attempted murder charge in the Namakgale District Court. He was granted R3 000 bail, which he […]
MPUMALANGA MEC for education Craig Padayachee paid a surprise visit to four schools in Nelspruit and nearby Kanyamazane on Thursday to ensure that principals are doing they job properly. The MEC visited the schools to check on claims that principals were letting teachers drink during school hours, that there was a lack of discipline and […]
AN impoverished school in rural Northern Province was given R72 000 on Monday to build desperately needed classrooms. Education spokesman, Kenny Mathivha, said the donation, from computer technology company Lucent Technologies, would also be used to renovate facilities at Selaelo Primary School in Bochum near Pietersburg. The company gave the money to a special charity […]
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. […]
A NORTHERN Province technical college was systematically fleeced of almost R500 000 over the past few months without realising it. Officials at Giyani Technical College only discovered they had been defrauded when they wanted to buy something in town on Monday and were told their bank account was overdrawn. It appeared someone had been using […]
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 […]
MPUMALANGA police had to remove some 20 people who staged a sit-in at government offices on Tuesday night to try force the education department to pay an outstanding bill of R1,3 million. The protesters sat in at the department of public works in Nelspruit after education officials told them the matter was the responsibility of […]
OVER 190 Mpumalanga teachers are being trained to counsel children who are raped and abused. Nokuthula Ndlovu of Lekazi Primary School in Kanyamazane near Nelspruit is one of 195 teachers undergoing nine months of training. “The training is important because we’ve encountered problems with children who have been abused. Girls as young as 13 years […]
PARENTS at a controversial Mpumalanga primary school have given police one month to arrest people implicated in the theft of R4 500 from school funds. Parents at Ndlaphu Primary School at Daantjie, near Nelspruit, claim police have made no progress in a fraud case reported two years ago when money was stolen from the school’s […]