On Monday 9 February, five schools took part in an athletics competition at the Blue Downs stadium. Here is a selection of photos.
Photos by Masixole Feni
News | 11 February 2015
Today, Equal Education is protesting outside the Public Investment Corporation because it is an investor in the Curro private school chain. DORON ISAACS, Equal Education's Deputy General Secretary, explains his organisation's concerns with Curro.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 10 February 2015
A large group of Uxolo High School students in Khayelitsha chanted and protested in the street outside the school premises Monday morning over a lack of teachers, mainly for Matric classes.
Barbara Maregele
News | 9 February 2015
Learners at A.C.J. Phakade primary school in Nomzamo are back in class after a go-slow by teachers last week over sanitation problems.
Siyabonga Kalipa
Brief | 4 February 2015
Arrangements have been made to accommodate most of the Mfuleni learners who were using a tent as a school, according to the Western Cape Department of Education.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 4 February 2015
It is only 10am on a Wednesday morning and A.C.J. Phakade primary school students in Nomzamo township (near Strand in Cape Town) are already walking home or waiting for shuttles to fetch them.
Zintle Swana
News | 29 January 2015
Hundreds of learners are using a tent in Mfuleni’s Bardale neighbourhood as a school after parents say they were turned away from primary and high schools in the area which are full.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 29 January 2015
Last week Nikki Stein from SECTION27 expressed reservations about the piloting of paperless classrooms at seven township schools in Gauteng. MEC for Education in the province, Panyaza Lesufi, responds here.
Panyaza Lesufi
Opinion | 27 January 2015
At 22 years of age, Brightness Khumalo, has found a job that she describes as hard but which she clearly finds rewarding.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Brief | 22 January 2015
Instead of the familiar echo of bullets, the sound of dozens of Manenberg residents chanting “Enough is enough” could be heard last night through the streets notorious for the recent spate of gang violence in the area.
Barbara Maregele
News | 21 January 2015
The air is thick with the excitement of the first week of school. Stories of bright-eyed learners whose parents are dropping them off for the start of their school careers, donning their too-big uniforms and carrying backpacks almost the size of the learners themselves, are all over newspapers, radio stations, televisions and social media.
Nikki Stein
Opinion | 21 January 2015
The WaterWise Academy has taught water safety skills to over half a million children around the country. These skills are easy to learn and provide an effective way to reduce the number of drownings in South Africa, says the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI).
Kevin Elliott
News | 20 January 2015
It has taken almost 50 years for a school in Mitchell's Plain to achieve a 100% matric pass rate. Not since the community’s inception in the 1970s has a school in the area managed to ensure that each of its pupils not only made the grade but also excelled at maths and science.
A’Eysha Kassiem
News | 12 January 2015
A focus on the matric results obscures problems lower down in the education system, writes Wim Louw.
Wim Louw
Opinion | 7 January 2015
The journey to school is long and tough for many pupils. Some have to travel for hours on foot to get to school. The Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) recently collected affidavits in rural KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) which were “truly incredible and devastating”.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 4 December 2014
Nondumiso Marman used to fear water but now she teaches Khayelitsha children how to swim.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 3 December 2014