*Published by City Press Last month alone, seven pupils died and 21 more were injured as they made their way to and from public schools in KwaZulu-Natal. Fifteen of those learners are from Ngwane High in Nquthu – a school that the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department admits qualifies for government-subsidised scholar transport. However, the department is
As at the end of August, at least 10 learners have died and at least 113 have been injured in taxi and bakkie collisions in KwaZulu-Natal in 2017. In one of the more recent incidents, a taxi transporting learners home from Ngwane High School in Nquthu crashed, injuring all 15 learners inside. Ngwane High is
Equal Education (EE) and the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) are extremely distressed at media reports that several learners at Bothitong High School in the Northern Cape were allegedly given stipends by teachers in exchange for unprotected sex, and that learners have fallen pregnant by teachers as a result. It is abhorrent that teachers –
Equal Education branch members from Thandokhulu High, and their fellow learners, are currently engaged in a brave struggle to secure a safe and dignified schooling environment for all learners at this school, sparked by numerous reports of sexual assault and corporal punishment by a teacher employed there. We regard the learners’ demands for a proper
This statement is issued by the learners of Thandokhulu High School, in Mowbray, Western Cape. It is being distributed by Equal Education on their behalf. A school is meant to be a place of safety for learners. The reported incidents of sexual harassment and corporal punishment by a teacher at Thandokhulu High School has left
Equal Education (EE) joins international civil society in condemning the increased expansion of the Liberian government’s plans to double the amount of public schools run by private actors in the country. This move forms part of the administration’s controversial plan to outsource all primary and pre-primary education in the country. The growing power of unaccountable
Today, partial judgment in the Grootkraal Primary School court case was handed down in the Western Cape High Court. Equal Education joined the Grootkraal Primary court case as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in 2012. While Judge Elizabeth Baartman did not yet rule on the application to evict the school, or yet address the
Equal Education (EE) is extremely troubled by reports that thousands of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) learners, dependent on the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) for a daily meal, are going hungry due to poor administration of the tender process on the part of the KZN Education Department. It is unconscionable for learners dependent on the NSNP as
This month, Equal Education (EE) will be holding national teach-ins (political schools) for EE members from the Eastern Cape, the Western Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo. The theme of this year’s teach-ins is “Workers’ and Students Unite! From the Class Struggle to the Classroom”. The national teach-ins, similar to any educational seminar on an issue
*Published by The Daily Dispatch In September last year, Vuyani Sipambo, principal at Nkupulweni Junior Secondary in Matatiele, received a letter informing him his school was to be “rationalised”, and that learners and teachers would be relocated to a new school 25km away. Nkupulweni is one of 1902 schools that the Eastern Cape Department of
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