Six Johannesburg schools have clubbed together to operate a programme that provides mother-tongue support to black learners in predominantly white and English-medium schools. And now one of the six, Parkview Junior School, has reversed the process, offering Zulu additional language classes that integrate learners across racial and cultural lines. The main programme has been running […]
Since its inception in 1989, Missouri Secondary School has been associated with lawlessness and disorder – and, on occasion, outright violence, like when a learner shot his classmate on the school premises in 2002. But Martin Louis, appointed as acting principal last year, is determined to stop the rot. Already there are signs that things […]
Patrick Commercial College in Gauteng, also known as Patcom College, is marketing programmes for which it is not registered. Currently the college is registered with the Department of Education’s directorate of private higher education institutions (PHEIs) to offer only information technology at certificate and diploma levels. However, a brochure from the college’s Benoni branch is […]
South Africa will be unable to produce enough local expertise to carry out major developmental projects unless we produce more qualified engineers. TheTeacher samples some engineering courses around the country offering useful information on what learners need to be admitted to these courses.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation recently released its Emerging Voices report on
education in rural communities. <i>TheTeacher</i> visited another lost village in southern KwaZulu Natal where poverty, illiteracy and unemployment have a major effect on children’s education.
The violence that once tore KwaZulu-Natal apart continues to haunt the survivors. But an alternative therapy seems to be putting those ghosts to rest, helping people heal their psychological and emotional wounds. TheTeacher investigates this new therapy, called The Journey, which is being piloted at six schools.
With the nation’s unemployment rates hovering around the 40% mark, learning
institutions have their work cut out for them to give their learners a shot at becoming active in the economy. <i>TheTeacher </i>visits an independent school intent on nurturing confident learners.
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) seems to be losing the plot in addressing the problem of declining enrolment at some schools in Soweto.
The doors of learning creaked open with some difficulty as schools re-opened last month. While provincial heads insist the start of the school year went well, reports from around the country told a different story. Work on the ground suggested illegal exclusions, as well as classroom conditions that do not promote learning, still affected thousands of children.
Thousands of Eastern Cape schools opened for the new school year late last month without essential stationery, including basics such as pencils and paper. A lack of planning by the province’s education department is to blame for the blunder.
Umbumbulo, a rural village near Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, was the scene of brutal conflict in the early 1990s between the Inkatha Freedom Party and African National Congress, which left orphans, widows and a shattered community in its wake.
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/ 2 November 2004
By all appearances, the property looks like any other in the affluent neighbourhood of Parktown West, Johannesburg. But once inside the reception area of the house, the multitude of pictures and photos packed on every wall suggests that this is no ordinary house.
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/ 25 October 2004
The creation of a regional qualifications framework (RQF) is no longer an academic debate, but an idea that is taking form. This is according to Joe Samuels, who spoke at the fifth Q-Africa conference co-hosted by the South Africa Qualifications Authority and the German Qualifications Federation this month.
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/ 22 November 2002
The memory of seven-year-old Mamokgethi Malebana lives on five years after her abuser killed her the day before she was to testify against him in court. The gruesome act mobilised the Katlehong community against child abuse.
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/ 11 October 2002
The Aganang Community Centre is a beacon of hope for thousands of informal settlement dwellers in Zwartkop, north-west of Johannesburg. The modest office boasts the barest necessities, but a stone’s throw away is a prefab structure housing a thriving basket-weaving project and a creche.
A moratorium on the registration of new children’s homes in Gauteng has forced the Johannesburg Child Welfare Society (JCWS) to come up with innovative ways to help children in need of support.
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/ 28 September 2002
Johannesburg’s city council and the Alexandra Renewal Project (ARP) have found that the carrot works better than the stick when it comes to removing people from illegal structures and dangerous areas. ARP spokesperson Mike Maile says they have "learned a lesson from using courts".
Faced with a dwindling membership base and lack of clear strategic programmes, South Africa’s youth political organisations are again battling to formulate new roles that would make them relevant in the new dispensation.
The North West Department of Education this week came clean on the state of adult basic education and training (Abet) in the province — and promised to tackle the problems that beset it.
ORANGE Farm residents are reaching out to HIV-positive people in their community
TIKKUN and pension-fund company Alexander Forbes have joined hands to launch a home-care of the aged project