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The department of basic education will, from this month until next year, embark on roadshows as part of an awareness campaign to address violence and bullying in schools.
BONGIWE MBINQO GIGABA

Education department to run campaign against bullying

Incidents of violence and bullying at schools have been on the spotlight recently

  • Bongekile Macupe
3 min read
The Gauteng DOE has ticked all the boxes in terms of security for its schools. Yet,there has been a seeming increase in incidents at schools. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
COUNTRY

The art of flouting security

The Gauteng DOE has ticked all the boxes in terms of security for its schools. Yet,there has been a seeming increase in incidents at schools

  • Gemma Ritchie
13 min read
By far the greatest share of schools lacking sanitation is in the Eastern Cape, where 1 478 schools need emergency sanitation. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BONGEKILE MACUPE

Education MEC blames overaged learners for violence in schools

The North West MEC education of education says overaged learners should not be admitted into schools because they cause disruptions

  • Bongekile Macupe
6 min read
Mail & Gaurdian
COUNTRY

EDITORIAL: We ignore our children’s future

Have we become a society that is so hardened that we no longer care about the future of our children?

  • Editorial
3 min read
(Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
BONGEKILE MACUPE

Faction fights in KZN turn school playgrounds into battlefields

Long-standing feuds between adults are playing out at schools, with the violence forcing them to be closed for long periods

  • Bongekile Macupe
9 min read
Break-ins, vandalism and the burning of poor, under-resourced schools are not new in South Africa. (John McCan/M&G)
ASSAULT

There’s another, more prevalent violence at schools

The minute girls walk into the school environment, they face numerous difficulties, including discrimination on the basis of sex

  • Siphokuhle Mkancu
3 min read
The Ottery Youth Care Centre is one of two of its kind left in the Western Cape. Now the province’s education department is threatening to close it.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Parents must be the solution to violence in schools

​The Department of Education in KZN has called on parents,communities and all other stakeholders to come together to combat school bullying.

  • Kaveel Singh
3 min read
Kamal Vasram is the sole shareholder in the Vrede dairy farm project.
GANGSTERISM

Savvy school turns its gang crisis around

After a teen was stabbed to death, teachers and parents set about stamping out the violence

  • Bongekile Macupe
7 min read
In January, the multi-million rand Menzi Primary School, in Tsakane, was broken into days after it was opened. (Gallo)
SCHOOL VIOLENCE

Policing alone won’t reduce violence at schools

Violence at schools is a reflection of their broader context, requiring multiple prevention strategies.

  • Lara Leoschut
4 min read
Regressive: Police at Wits University last year – a development that was resisted by the institution during apartheid. Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters
DRONES

Favour rigorous debate, not security

Wits University should take up students’ violence as a pedagogical challenge.

  • Staff Reporter
9 min read
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is being lobbied in an online petition to investigate violence in the country’s schools.
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Avaaz campaigners call on Motshekga to stop school violence

Bolstering a weak life orientation curriculum is proposed as one of the ways of preventing abuse, including rape, in classrooms.

  • Bongani Nkosi
4 min read
Boxed in: By consciously reaching out to their ­humanity
NURAAN DAVIDS

There are better ways to deal with school violence

Traditional school punishments do not work – cultivating care and compassion is far better.

  • Nuraan Davids
5 min read
Given that the Middle East conflict dominates world agenda
CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

School-fight websites incite further violence, say experts

Sites that publicise incidents of school violence online only add fuel to an already dangerous fire, according to legal and psychological experts.

  • Victoria John
4 min read
GLENVISTA HIGH SCHOOL

Glenvista pupil suspended for allegedly attacking teacher

A pupil from Glenvista High School in south Johannesburg has been suspended for allegedly assaulting a teacher and now faces a disciplinary hearing.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
Hlayiseka tackles violence
CENTRE FOR JUSTICE AND CRIME

Hlayiseka tackles violence

Hlayiseka is a school intervention which aims to equip South African schools burdened with violence to cope better with their situation.

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read
MORNE HARMSE

Alleged sword killer’s case postponed

The case against a matric pupil who allegedly killed a fellow pupil with a sword was on Friday postponed for the second time.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
SCHOOL VIOLENCE

School violence under the spotlight

A 17-year-old boy was arrested after being found in possession of an unlicensed firearm at a school in Jabulani, Soweto, Johannesburg police say.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
CONGRESS OF SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE UNIONS

Cosatu condemns school slaying

It is unacceptable that schools are being turned into killing fields instead being portals of knowledge and information, Cosatu said on Tuesday.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
KENYA

Kenya bans cellphones to stem school riots

The Kenyan government banned on Tuesday the use of cellphones in schools in a bid to stem a string of deadly riots that have rocked the country.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
CAPE TOWN

System fails child rape victim

An eight-year-old Worcester boy told his teacher and his mother that he was repeatedly raped, beaten and threatened by children at his school.

  • Pearlie Joubert Author
5 min read