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 […]
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 […]
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Can the Phono-Graphix Reading method make a dent in our literacy problem in South Africa? IT is well known that illiteracy is one of the biggest problems facing South Africa. Statistics on how many adults and children are functionally illiterate are frighteningly high. Being functionally illiterate means not being able to read the most basic […]
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 […]
Getting children off the streets and back in school helps fight crime “I didn’t feel like going to school here. My mother didn’t want to send me. She said I was wasting her money.” Nadima (13) has been off school for six months since she moved to live with her mother in Manenberg. She spends […]