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Parents want the Gauteng education department to create a system to monitor the content on the electronic devices. Photo: Getty Images

Parents worry that learners’ misuse of electronic educational devices goes unchecked by schools

Parents want the Gauteng education department to create a system to monitor the content on the electronic devices

No winners in R37-million Eastern Cape medical negligence case as judges rescind original order. Photo: Madelene Cronjé

Learners moving to other provinces puts education departments under pressure

Gauteng and the Western Cape struggle to put children in class, but Limpopo and the Eastern Cape are closing schools as enrolment plummets

‘W Cape, fix unplaced pupils crisis’

Civil rights organisations want the department to find a permanent solution to the problem

Nozipho Mthembu’s case has drawn both support and criticism from parents at the school, and the wider public following the publication of her story in the  M&G on Friday.

Parents, W Cape education department clash over Rustenburg school racism allegations

Parents are outraged after the Western Cape education department denied that black teacher Nozipho Mthembu was mistreated

Midnight deadline for Gauteng school applications

More than 11 000 pupils yet to be placed in Western Cape schools

"About 130 000 learners from other provinces and 2 000 learners from other countries have relocated to the Western Cape"

One for all: Three classes are conducted in one classroom on a farm in Breyten

Pupils Speak Out: ‘They called us the ‘K’ word and told us to go back to the township’

Philippi High School pupils give their account of events on March 6, when police with stun grenades repelled them from the WC education department.

Pupils who ‘stood up for their rights’

For Khayelitsha learners, their recent protests against deprivation became a story of hope.

Western Cape school closures case back in court

Communities were not properly consulted before a decision was taken to close a number of schools, the Western Cape High Court has heard.

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.