Health MEC urges fight against drugs
admin @ June 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Johannesburg - Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu has called on South Africans to fight substance abuse in their communities.
Unisa strike continues
admin @ June 28, 2010 # No Comment Yet
National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union members on strike at the University of South Africa have threatened to march to the offices of Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande next week if their wage demands are not met.
“Unisa management refuses to even take time to address workers on this issue. That is why we decided […]
Text book shortage causes ructions
admin @ June 24, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Western Cape Education Department is at loggerheads with a local student rights group over a shortage of textbooks at two Khayelitsha schools.
With matric exams less than three months away, many pupils at Chris Hani and Kwamfundo high schools in Khayelitsha still do not have textbooks, says lobby group Equal Education.
Cop in court for 2008 killing of pupil
admin @ June 23, 2010 # No Comment Yet
A police officer will appear in court today over the killing of a Grade 11 pupil during a school protest at Bhekisizwe Secondary school in Babanango, Zululand, in 2008.
The police officer was subpoenaed to appear in court after the director of public prosecutions decided to charge him with murder.
Teachers’ union feels vindicated after probe
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The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) in KwaZulu-Natal feels vindicated by a forensic report on alleged corruption in the Education Department, it said on Thursday.
“The MEC [Senzo Mchunu] said disciplinary action will be taken against officials fingered in the report,” said Sadtu KwaZulu-Natal provincial secretary Mbuyiseni Mathonsi.
KZN school officials face blitz
admin @ June 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The KwaZulu-Natal Education Department on Tuesday said it was considering taking criminal and disciplinary action against officials after the findings of a report had been completed.
‘Conditions in these centres are challenging’
admin @ June 15, 2010 # No Comment Yet
A lobby group has taken the government to court for allegedly denying thousands of children with severe or profound intellectual disabilities the constitutional right to basic education.
The Western Cape Forum for Intellectual Disability (WCFID) said it went to court against the national and provincial governments after 10 years of failed negotiations to end the children’s […]
Children on that side don’t have manners
admin @ June 11, 2010 # No Comment Yet
An entire Cape Flats school was in hysterics on Wednesday after learners were told not to come back next term.
News that children would have to attend more notorious schools in Bonteheuwel has left the children terrified.
Zuma goes back to school for little boy
admin @ June 10, 2010 # No Comment Yet
A curious and very persistent 11-year-old boy was the reason for President Jacob Zuma visiting the Frances Vorwerg School in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning.
Rose Mbele, who is Paul Jarvis’s teacher at the school for remedial learning, told Sapa that the boy had asked her to arrange a visit by Zuma.
Girl dies after plunge from school building
admin @ June 9, 2010 # No Comment Yet
A fourteen-year-old Verulam School girl has died after she fell from a three-storey buildingat the Mount View Secondary School on Tuesday morning, paramedics said.