The Eastern Cape education department has allegedly failed to comply with a court order, leaving thousands of pupils without school desks and chairs.
It’s literally a case of the blind leading the blind at the crumbling Setotolwane special-needs school.
We track Equal Education’s two-year battle to get Angie Motshekga to publish norms for school infrastructure – a fight that is not over yet.
Victoria John reported on an infamous Mauritius institution in 2009. When a new branch opened in Johannesburg, she took another look.
"If these results were true, it would mean we have improved more in a single year than Colombia did in 12 years from 1995 to 2007," experts said.
If the annual national assessments are to be believed, SA has the fastest developing education system in the world – a highly unlikely conclusion.
Horrendous hostel facilities, physical abuse by teachers and inconsistent recording of marks are some of the pupils’ complaints.
They’ve just won a major legal victory, but for Equal Education the battle has only begun.
Delegates at a civil society conference have heard that the sexualisation of minors is out of control.
The province says putting furniture in schools is difficult without sufficient funds.
A R60-million "African solution for an African problem" is set to benefit two-million pupils across South Africa over the next three years.
The DA hopes to deliver more than 600 letters to President Jacob Zuma from Limpopo pupils, asking him to provide better resources for their education.
Some progress has been made in access to education but just because you have bums on seats doesn’t mean students are actually learning anything.
The teachers’ union claims their agenda is political and their links will be exposed.
Despite the basic education department’s rattling, the treasury has confirmed the R7.2-billion for school infrastructure backlogs was reallocated.
What is clear from the 2011 Census results is that more South Africans are getting some education compared to 2001, but not enough of it.
Officers are allegedly targeting everyone in their path as gang violence among teenagers rises in Khayelitsha. Victoria John reports.
Gang violence and vigilantism have plagued Khayelitsha, and police have allegedly joined in by beating up teenage gang members.
Increasing legal cases highlight the department of education’s failure to provide basic school infrastructure, Victoria John reports.
Western Cape pupils put a face to the school infrastructure crisis by wearing masks of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s face at a march.
Seven of the 27 Western Cape schools that faced possible closure will stay open, the province’s education department has announced.
Be brave in the face of intimidation by education officials, civil society told teachers, principals and governing body members at a Limpopo workshop.
The South African Democratic Teachers Union has given Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga seven days to act on the Limpopo textbooks report.
One of the task team’s recommendations is an investigation into basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan for his role in the delay.
The education authority must set up a remedial programme for pupils who did not get textbooks.
Thousands of Limpopo pupils are still without the textbooks they need and that is where the argument should stop, Section 27 says.
Teenagers in Cape Town who live in poverty and face a bleak future are turning to pangas, not sports fields, to prove themselves – and to keep score.
Eastern Cape schools have expressed outrage over allegedly "unlawful" meddling by the provincial education department in the procurement of textbooks.
Section 27 has filed papers at the North Gauteng High Court after it emerged that hundreds of Limpopo pupils are still without textbooks.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa walked out of a meeting with hundreds of angry Northern Cape protesters on Monday after it degenerated into chaos.
Critics claim the provincial education department has not done enough to help schools in trouble.
The Democratic Alliance has laid criminal charges against those responsible for preventing 16 000 pupils from attending school for three months.