Mayhem marked the start of the new school year at Gelvandale Senior Secondary School in Port Elizabeth when an African National Congress leader took drastic action against the school’s admission policies. Christian Martin, an ANC MPL in the Eastern Cape who serves on the legislature’s standing committee on education, brought locks and chains to the […]
If South Africa’s education system can be compared to a volatile river, then schools in Stellenbosch are distant streams, meandering separately, at a pace of their own. The schools reflect the town. Issues of transformation and integration surface only occasionally, briefly interrupting its otherwise peaceful flow. Or so it seems. A recent protest at Stellenbosch […]
espite past criticism that its primary school feeding schemes were not reaching remote areas of the Eastern Cape, Bisho says that it is satisfied that the programme is back on track. And, adds the provincial government, bread suppliers are soon to receive outstanding payments. Many bakeries have been facing a cash crisis because the provincial […]
Suspended Chapman High principal Randolph Jonas is back at school – at least for now. The feisty principal’s future at the school in Gelvandale, Port Elizabeth, still remains undecided after his 30-day suspension was lifted on April 8. Jonas’s suspension in March stemmed from his repeated refusal to heed Port Elizabeth district director of education […]