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Time the state drilled down into water scarcity at schools

Education Bongekile Macupe - 27 Sep 2020

When the hard lockdowns kicked in it was discovered that 3 000 schools didn’t have an adequate water supply. But this is not a new problem

Open schools mean full tummies as feeding schemes resume

Coronavirus Pontsho Pilane - 30 Aug 2020

About four in five learners in the country’s poorest schools rely on the one meal they receive at school, but they weren’t able to get it for more than four months, during which child hunger increased because of the pandemic

Advocacy group takes department to court over school nutrition programme

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 28 Jun 2020

Equal Education wants the court to get the basic education department to feed all learners who qualify for the programme, including those who are not back at school

Very few believe provincial education departments are suddenly efficient

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 13 May 2020

Ordinary citizens have not forgotten that schools were failing before the virus crisis

Build infrastructure to support the fourth industrial revolution

Article Tshilidzi Marwala - 8 Apr 2020

Technology has the potential to solve many of the country’s social problems such as electricity production and the eradication of pit latrines

NGOs today: Competing for resources, power and agency

Analysis Kentse Radebe & Ncedisa Nkonyeni - 5 Mar 2020

NGOs play a critical role in advancing social change and transformation, but their current funding model needs to be addressed for them to make a sustainable impact in South Africa

What the Harvey Weinstein case can teach us about a complainant-centred process

Analysis Crystal Dicks - 2 Mar 2020

The verdict highlights a number of critical issues required to build systems, processes and advocacy when it comes to working in the space of gender-based violence

Michael Komape’s family awarded R1.4m in damages by appeal court

Article Franny Rabkin - 18 Dec 2019

Supreme Court of Appeal says the attitude of the education authorities “to be deprecated in the strongest possible terms”

Citizens ache for new form of politics

Article Andile Zulu - 29 Nov 2019

Talking about a revolution is fitting given the state’s performance over the past 25 years

Limpopo schools continue to lag on the safe sanitation front

Article Zanele Modise - 19 Nov 2019

Expediture on infrastructure by the province’s education department is only 24% of the budget

An end in sight for KwaZulu-Natal learners’ long walk

Article Shaazia Ebrahim - 30 Oct 2019

A recent court ruling stipulates that the provincial government must release it scholar transport policy by January 31

Financial compensation for grief and sorrow?

Article Tania Broughton - 29 Aug 2019

The death of Michael Komape has ignited debate on whether or not the common law should be developed to include damages for grief

Education MEC blames overaged learners for violence in schools

Article Bongekile Macupe - 19 Aug 2019

The North West MEC education of education says overaged learners should not be admitted into schools because they cause disruptions

Sexual abuse in the workplace: a symptom of a larger system of power gone rogue

Article Seehaam Samaai & Aisha Hamdulay - 1 May 2019

South Africa’s public-interest sector is not clean of alleged sex pests in the office

Equality court sets new policing precedent

Article Musawenkosi Cabe - 28 Mar 2019

Court finds allocation of police resources in the Western Cape unfairly discriminated against black and poor people on the basis of race and poverty

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special reports - 27 Nov 2020

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