The inability of 81% of our learners to read for meaning is an indicator of a system failing to provide all the inputs necessary to give children a reasonable opportunity to learn to read, argues Cameron McConnachie.
The sun has set on the Fish River Resort near Port Alfred, with the once-thriving hotel, casino and golf resort destroyed by wholesale looting and vandalism.
Vehicles with trailers were used to load millions of rand worth of goods from the Fish River Resort in the Eastern Cape in a massive looting spree during the weekend.
On 24 February 2023, Jason Brickhill delivered Equal Education’s inaugural Yoliswa Dwane Memorial Lecture at the University of Cape Town. In 2008, Yoliswa Dwane was a co-founder of Equal Education, the social movement dedicated to fighting to ensure the constitutional right to basic education....
The Prudhoe community, which has finally been given ownership of the stunning Fish River Resort and golf course, has already secured over half a billion rand in investment which is likely to benefit the entire province. It has taken almost a quarter of a century and several running legal battles with government and a competing claimant community for the community to finally get back its land.
Almost all Eastern Cape schools will start the second term next week with a full inventory of stationery and “top-up” textbooks, says education department head Dr Naledi Mbude. The belated deliveries follow a terrible nine-week first term in which the majority of the province’s 5,080 schools went without the required stationery and textbooks.
“I am sincerely and unreservedly sorry,” provincial education departmental head Dr Naledi Mbude said to pupils, parents and teachers whose schools — nine weeks into the school year — have still not received their full complement of stationery and textbooks. She has much to apologise for, say educational activists.