A retired school principal with more than four decades of teaching to her credit has received a meagre, one-off pension pay-out of just R15 000. Fourteen years have passed since…

A regional court magistrate in the former Transkei has dispelled claims by the office of the Minister of Education Kader Asmal that his ‘lenient” sentencing of five Qumbu…

Education authorities in the Eastern Cape are once again under fire for failing to deal effectively with problems besetting schooling. With the first term of the year already at…

The snow and gale-force winds that hit the Eastern Cape last month will adversely affect results at the end of the year, educationists are predicting. When learners returned to…

Learners who have to walk several kilometres to school in the most rural parts of the former Transkei are to benefit from a pilot project to provide bicycles as a means of…

A recent head count undertaken by the Eastern Cape education department points to rampant truancy amongst its approximate 74 000 teachers. On any given day in Eastern Cape…

For five years, says Sadtu, the provincial Department of Education has failed to pay cash bonuses, leave gratuities, salary adjustments, relocation costs, substitute teachers and…

“Teaching as a profession in South Africa is fading. It is a worrying factor. Where do we go wrong? Without education no country will survive!” These were the concluding remarks…