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Matric students are currently writing their National Senior Certificate exams which commenced on 30 October and will run until 6 December. (Photo by Roger Sedres/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
COVID 19

Pandemic leaves 1.4bn learners worldwide behind on education

Human Rights Watch warns that learners may take years to recover from the damage caused by school closures

  • Bongekile Macupe
6 min read
Grade 11 learner ( who wish to remain anonymous) from Onkgopotse Tiro Combine School has resorted in assisting in building his mother’s new home to keep busy and to learn in order to prepare himself for a civil engeneering course that he wants to persue when he finished school. Without any explanation from his school, he has been sitting at home since the beggining of the lockdown even though other learners from different schools have started attending. (Oupa Nkosi)
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Farmworkers’ children forgotten

They have been unable to return to their school in North West because the hostel is closed

  • Bongekile Macupe
7 min read