Latest articles on School Infrastructure

Summing up the legal battles fought for better schools

Article Franny Rabkin - 30 Apr 2020

We summarise the legal battles fought to improve the quality of education in South Africa.

From shacks to shops – new uses for abandoned state schools

Article Bongekile Macupe - 8 Nov 2019

People are living in some of the many schools that have been closed because of low enrolment numbers. Others are used as business premises

Motshekga airs basic education’s infrastructure budget woes

Article Sarah Smit - 9 May 2018

During the department's budget vote speech, the minister emphasised that budget cuts will make it difficult to deliver safe infrastructure

Equal Education must get its facts straight

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Nov 2017

'The article’s unsubstantiated information is best described as an attack on the CDC’s integrity'

Motshekga denies responsibility in toilet death

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Oct 2015

The state said they should not have known that the toilet Michael Komape drowned in was unsafe for use.

How much longer for better school infrastructure?

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Apr 2015

Equal Education and pupils frustrated by the long wait for better school infrastructure picketed outside the basic education department's office.

Dodgy data leads to flawed plans

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Nov 2014

Provincial plans for school infrastructure should be made public to ensure correct needs are met.

Pupils lift lid on Tembisa toilets

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Nov 2014

Residents are auditing sanitation at schools to ensure the government keeps its promises.

New Mpumalanga schools sweep the board

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Oct 2014

Mpumalanga has replaced 14 substandard rural schools with two state-of-the-art institutions.

School infrastructure: How NGOs are planning to get the message across

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Jul 2014

NGOs consider using soccer clubs, traditional healers, churches and even shebeens to tell SA about government's plan to fix school infrastructure.

Unite both the head and the hand

Article Enver Motala Author & Enver Motala - 12 Apr 2014

We can overcome education models that still entrench social divisions.

In Queen’s Mercy, pupils pull back from the brink

Article Staff Reporter - 4 Apr 2014

Equal Education activists help rural Eastern Cape school to find its voice and stand up for the right to education.

Keeping the passion for teaching alive

Article Rebecca Hickman - 20 Mar 2014

Young teachers need support so disillusionment does not drive them away from the profession.

Our courts are schooling the state

Article Faranaaz Veriava & Comment Author - 14 Mar 2014

With prompting from civil society, judges are reminding the state of its material obligations to schools and pupils.

Schools left in an intolerable infrastructure limbo

Article Faranaaz Veriava & Comment Author - 21 Feb 2014

Priority rescues must be planned for schools where pupils' safety and health are now at risk.

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