Priority rescues must be planned for schools where pupils’ safety and health are now at risk.
The SA Human Rights Commission and rights activists have called for the eradication of pit latrines at schools after a child died in one this week.
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At least in one in every five public health facilities in the country has run out of HIV and/or TB drugs in the last two months, says a report.
Meals are back in 11 Limpopo schools after legal action, but the lost teaching time worries principals.
Despite government’s national school feeding scheme, pupils at Tshinavhe Secondary School have been left hungry, says rights organisation Section27.
Hospitals and clinics are to be demolished and rebuilt to reboot the Eastern Cape’s "broken" health system.
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If the community stays vigilant, lives will be improved for many years.
NHI details are not clear but it is certain that the priveged few will have to do with less.
A report released by health activists details mismanagement and shortages in Mthatha.
Médecins Sans Frontières says in five months there has been no improvement with Eastern Cape HIV and TB drug stock-outs.
In a surprise move, the basic education department has announced it only planned to provide every child with a textbook by 2014.
Their life expectancy is almost as high as those who are HIV free, yet they pay much more.
Having a baby in sub-Saharan Africa is riskier than anywhere else according to the latest State of the World’s Mothers report.
The basic education department is in breach of a court order regarding textbook delivery, says civil rights group Section27.
The state is working to fix sanitation in Limpopo’s schools. But will it fix policy, too?
Groups have met to devise a programme to tackle rape and violence, and have called on the president to observe silence before his Sona address.
Section27 has threatened to go back to court if shocking school infrastructure problems in hundreds of Limpopo schools are not urgently addressed.
Delegates at a civil society conference have heard that the sexualisation of minors is out of control.
Despite the the basic education department’s claim that all textbooks had been delivered to Limpopo schools, Section27 says this is not the case.
Be brave in the face of intimidation by education officials, civil society told teachers, principals and governing body members at a Limpopo workshop.
Rights group Section27 has said that criminal proceedings need to be instituted and stolen monies recovered in the Limpopo textbook debacle.
The Democratic Alliance says Limpopo police need to investigate the basic education department after another load of textbooks were found dumped.
Legal action may be taken against the civil society leaders who questioned the moral integrity of ANC leaders and named them, the party says.
The ANC’s reaction to a civil society conference was "reminiscent of the paranoia of the Mbeki era", the conference co-hosts said on Wednesday.