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DUNDEE, South Africa (AP) — On weekdays, 14-year-old Luyanda Hlali gets up before dawn to fetch firewood and cow dung to start a fire and boil some water before her

The lack of government-funded school transportation has exacerbated myriad dangers for thousands of South African children...

On weekdays, 14-year-old Luyanda Hlali gets up before dawn to fetch firewood and cow dung to start a fire and boil some water before her four siblings and parents wake up. The mornings are a hive of activity in the Nhlangothi home, in the tiny village of Stratford in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. Once her chores are done, Luyanda embarks on a 10-kilometer (6-mile) walk to her school. There are no school buses. There is only the long, dusty road where thieves and bad men can accost her...

Thousands of children in South Africa's poorest and most remote rural communities still face a miles-long walk to school, nearly 30 years after the country ushered in democratic change

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DUNDEE, South Africa (AP) — On weekdays, 14-year-old Luyanda Hlali gets up before dawn to fetch firewood and cow dung to start a fire and boil some water before her four siblings and parents wake up. The mornings are a hive of activity in the Nhlangothi home, in the tiny village of Stratford in South […]

On weekdays, 14-year-old Luyanda Hlali gets up before dawn to fetch firewood and cow dung to start a fire and boil some water before her four siblings and parents wake up.

1 November 2023 Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre joint statement: National Treasury’s budget cuts will further deepen the #EducationBlackout threatening the future of the country’s learners “We can’t afford budget cuts because we are not getting the school services. So if there will be a budget cut on education, I think it will…

Civil society organisations with a focus on education, health and social grants were less than enamoured with the 2023 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.

While the finance minister was set to deliver his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement on Wednesday, demonstrators urged him to reconsider cost cuts.