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Struggle: Schoolchildren often cannot go to school when roads and buildings have been damaged. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Report: Schools unprepared for climate crisis

Learners have been adversely affected by damage to schools from extreme weather events such as floods

  • Umamah Bakharia
3 min read
The government estimates between 40 000 and 600 000 children with disabilities do not go to school at all. (David Harrison)
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

Too many disabled children still fall through schooling gaps

Inclusive strategies need to be implemented in South Africa so that people living with disabilities like autism can live meaningful, productive lives

  • Eunice Masson
8 min read
Drowned: Avethandwa Nokhangela was not on an official school outing when she drowned, but the education department said it needs to review the role of third parties in school-related activities that take place during school holidays
AVETHANDWA NOKHANGELA

After Avethandwa: Basic education department to review excursions outside school hours

Avethandwa Nokhangela drowned at an Equal Education camp in the Eastern Cape, but the provincial department of education has distanced itself from the tragedy

  • Bongekile Macupe
3 min read
Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
AVETHANDWA NOKHANGELA

Ngcukaitobi joins panel probing learner’s drowning at Equal Education camp

The independent panel will make recommendations on restorative justice for Avethandwa Nokhangela’s family

  • Bongekile Macupe
2 min read
AVETHANDWA NOKHANGELA

Avethandwa Nokhangela drowned at an Equal Education camp, and her family wants answers

The family of a drowned schoolgirl says NGO Equal Education must explain why it allowed learners to swim at a dangerous beach with no lifeguards

  • Bongekile Macupe
6 min read
BRONAGH HAMMOND

‘W Cape, fix unplaced pupils crisis’

Civil rights organisations want the department to find a permanent solution to the problem

  • Bongekile Macupe
6 min read
DBE

Eastern Cape teenager drowns during an Equal Education leadership camp

The provincial department of education has called for a full investigation into the tragedy, while the organisation said an internal inquiry would be done by the Equal Education…

  • Bongekile Macupe
4 min read
AFRIFORUM

Learners take Motshekga to court over matric rewrite

This is after the minister announced on Friday that there would be a rewrite of the two subjects that have been leaked to protect the integrity of the exams

  • Bongekile Macupe
8 min read
EE has long argued that a safe and dignified school environment is a component of the right to education.
AMANDA RINQUEST

Plans to fix infrastructure in schools aren’t being implemented

The president has instructed Motshekga to develop an emergency plan to eradicate unsafe structures. But the audit and the plans already exist!

  • Amanda Rinquest
8 min read