Eastern Cape Education Department

South Africa has one of the most unequal school systems in the world. The gap in test scores between the top 20% and the rest is wider than in almost every other country

The province attained the highest improvement rate in the country

MEC Mandla Makupula was a stickler for detail, and lifted the provincial education department out of crisis

A true soldier of the struggle, till the very end

Mandla Makupula was a fearless and straight-talking activist

The MTBBE programme is an important part of decolonisation

Interventions should be about building facilities that offer dignity to our children

Hundreds of makeshift schools still exist in the province, despite a 2016 deadline for fixing them

‘The article’s unsubstantiated information is best described as an attack on the CDC’s integrity’

The department of education has spent about R260-million on laptops with the expectation that the technology would be used for administration.

The province with the lowest matric pass rate in the country has begun looking honestly at its failures with input from employees, parents and pupils.

Mtundini Saphepha, a caretaker at a primary school, recounts how he was stuck in excreta when a latrine collapsed.

The troubled education department will be probed but there are doubts this will make any difference.

But the department’s excuse is untenable in law and fact, says the Legal Resource Centre.

Court action is to blame for teacher vacancies, says the Eastern Cape education department.