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From South African classrooms to Gaza’s borders, the message is clear: charity must always begin with generosity, but its destiny is to become justice.
CHARITY

Charity must be strategic. Enough of the bleeding hearts

Generosity without focus is sentiment. Strategic charity, urgent and directed, is transformation

  • Armand Bam
4 min read
The Basic Education Law Amendment Bill has been tabled in parliament. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Ring the bell: School is back in session for the 2020 academic year

Provincial departments of education have reiterated their readiness for the 2020 academic year. As such, teaching and learning is expected to commence today — on the first day of…

  • Bongekile Macupe
4 min read
Bright future: Spark Soweto offers the same quality of education as it does in the more affluent suburbs of Johannesburg.(Oupa Nkosi )
BONGEKILE MACUPE

Private schools come to Soweto

Two independent schools in Soweto remove the need for a long commute to a high-quality education

  • Bongekile Macupe
6 min read
All white not right: Panyaza Lesufi
CURRO SCHOOLS

Curro: A timeline of alleged racism

Waterfall preschool is not the first school in the Curro group to be embroiled in a race row

  • Raeesa Pather
1 min read
The executive head and the principal of the Curro preschool in Waterfall
BLACK TEACHERS

Race row hits upmarket school

Black teachers say they were segregated from their white counterparts and were undermined

  • Raeesa Pather
7 min read
Bright sparks: A teacher from the Spark school in Bramley helps a young learner. Students from different socioeconomic backgrounds in South Africa — especially in Gauteng — are ­increasingly flocking to independent schools.
CURRO SCHOOLS

Boom in low-fee private schools

The rapidly expanding middle class wants a better education for their children.

  • Staff Reporter
10 min read
CURRO SCHOOLS

Let’s applaud sacking the anachronism

We can’t allow those who embrace segregation and resist change to remain at the helm of our schools.

  • Sabelo Ndlovu-gatsheni
4 min read
All white not right: Panyaza Lesufi
CURRO SCHOOLS

Private schools do not stand apart

Make no mistake: the autonomy of such institutions does not trump the Constitution.

  • Faranaaz Veriava
6 min read
Craig McKune.
CURRO SCHOOLS

Curro to stop segregating classrooms in Pretoria

After black parents signed a petition against the school the educators have now promised to integrate ‘black’ and ‘white’ classes.

  • Sapa
2 min read