A 33-year-old Johannesburg schoolteacher was arrested on Friday for allegedly extorting money from a grade-four pupil, police said.
Fifty-four new schools will be opened in Gauteng this year and 150 science laboratories refurbished in previously disadvantaged communities.
Britain’s Prince Harry, now helping to refurbish a Lesotho school, has pledged to continue helping some of Africa’s most vulnerable children.
From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in American classrooms.
A group of Khutsong pupils allegedly set a classroom and storeroom alight after dissatisfaction over the exam timetable, North West police said on Monday.
"About half the pupils in my class suffer in some way or another from the effects of alcohol abuse by their parents and people around them."
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/ 7 February 2008
According to a <i>Finweek</i> report last week, South African education is in crisis mode.
It seems that massacres at American schools and universities are becoming as traditional as the Fourth of July, or, as one newspaper put it, apple pie.
As described by a reporter who put on a gymslip and went off to school.