What will happen when the children realise they have been conned, asks writer Sindiwe Magona.
Two Equal Education writers describe their experience of the Eastern Cape’s most dilapidated schools; at one 856 learners share a single tap.
From broken windows to undignified toilets, Equal Education’s Julian Kesler shares his experience of the NGO’s tour of some Eastern Cape schools.
Activists cite dreadlock case as the latest example of government’s lack of clear direction to schools.
The state is working to fix sanitation in Limpopo’s schools. But will it fix policy, too?
Hidden away in Limpopo, parents and pupils are queuing up at two schools – and for good reason.
Overcrowding, too few teachers, not enough furniture or appalling toilets seem to have become the norm at some of the Eastern Cape’s schools.
Parents in the Eastern Cape have shut down schools because of horrendous conditions. Nomalanga Mkhize asks when the state will step in.
Section27 has threatened to go back to court if shocking school infrastructure problems in hundreds of Limpopo schools are not urgently addressed.
Her new infrastructure norms limit the state’s legal obligations to poor schools.
The draft norms and standards for school infrastructure that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga recently gazetted could well be illegal.
Storm clouds loom over basic education’s "inadequate" standards and unmet deadlines, writes Victoria John.
The province says putting furniture in schools is difficult without sufficient funds.
The continent needs greater political commitment to rescue its rural and peri-urban schools, writes Martin Prew.
Increasing legal cases highlight the department of education’s failure to provide basic school infrastructure, Victoria John reports.
Human rights activists in Tanzania claim the country’s education system is in crisis, with literacy rates plummeting at primary and secondary levels.
The Limpopo education department says it is not feasible to build a new school until the necessary infrastructure is in place.
Court action to enforce minimum norms for school buildings comes not a moment too soon.
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/ 22 February 2011
Inequality across schools is so extreme that legislation should be amended to force the government to set minimum infrastructure standards.