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 […]
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 […]