TEACHING at four Northern Province high schools was disrupted and one principal abducted in separate incidents of violence on Wednesday. School children protested at three schools in the Lowveld area and at one in the Central area. In the Lowveld, pupils at Magulasaba High School near Giyani allegedly held their principal hostage for five hours […]
PARENTS should not pay bail for their criminal offspring, said Mpumalanga’s safety and security MEC, Steve Mabona, on Sunday. Speaking at a prayer meeting called to address rising crime in townships near Nelspruit, he said parents who bailed out their children merely encouraged crime. “Parents and relatives who pay bail for criminals are encouraging those […]
TWO teachers who allegedly incited pupils to bunk school and join a community protest march last month have been given two weeks to motivate why their suspension should be lifted. There was no schooling at three schools in the Bushbuckridge area in Northern Province when pupils supported community protests against the Bushbuckridge local council between […]
AT least 250 schools across Zimbabwe have closed down in recent weeks in the wake of a campaign of political intimidation against teachers. Bidi Munyaradze, director of the rights organisation, ZimRights said on Monday that teachers were perceived as supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the main contenders against ZANU-PF in the […]
ARMED police were called to guard a high school in Northern Province at the start of the mid-year exams on Monday. Police were asked to patrol Nkgonyeletse High School at Ga-Mashabela village near Jane Furse where pupils ran riot last week forcing the school to close down. An urgent meeting involving parents, teachers, pupils, education […]
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 […]
POLICE on Monday dismissed reports that the stabbing incident at a Witbank school where a coloured pupil allegedly injured a white colleague was racially motivated, African Eye News Service reports. Shaun Craig McDonald, 18, a Grade 11 pupil at Hoerskool Reynopark in Witbank allegedly stabbed Hendrik Trichardt during a schoolyard brawl on Tuesday afternoon. Witbank […]
TWO Mpumalanga schoolteachers got a nasty surprise on Thursday when education MEC Craig Padayachee dropped in unexpectedly and announced he would charge them with misconduct. The two teachers, a man and a woman, teach at two of four schools Padayachee visited in Barberton on Thursday. When he visited KaMhola High School and Barberton Combined School, […]
It wasn’t the remembrance of Ethiopian rebel leader Jettane Ali, that darkened the mood around his grave at Marsabit. The 36 Ethiopian refugees from the disputed territory of Oromia in southern Ethiopia who gathered in the oasis in northern Kenya to pay their respects ahead of this Sunday’s parliamentary poll were convinced that the election would yield victory for Ethiopia’s ruling party.
Adult learners face the debilitating problem of transporting themselves to and from their centre of learning. AT 13, Reginah was bringing up two sisters and four brothers. She yearned to become a nursery school teacher, but never had the opportunity. As soon as she was old enough, she became an apprentice invisible mender. Later she […]