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More than 100,000 pupils in the province still use the dangerous pit latrines.

As the Eastern Cape started its school year on Wednesday, thousands of pupils across the province continued to have to use pit latrine toilets.The backlog in eradicating the rudimentary latrines, which are unhygienic and often dangerous, particularly for young pupils, has been slated by opposition parties.

EC education department made little progress in addressing the pit toilet crisis in schools, with only 21 toilets removed in the past year

The Kouga municipality has been given the green light to construct a 20MW solar plant — the first step in breaking free from dependence on Eskom.

The SA Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) in the Eastern Cape and education minister Angie Motshekga could be heading for a collision over the mooted centralisation of the national school nutrition programme budget, which it says is likely to be reintroduced in the province in 2024.

More than a hundred learners from Komani had to receive medical treatment after they bought and ate food from hawkers and shops in the town last week.

A top Eastern Cape education department official nabbed by the Hawks in connection with alleged dodgy tenders worth R4m two years ago has landed another plum job.

The DA and National Teachers Organisation have denounced the initiative, saying qualified teachers were being treated as ‘casual labour’

A toxic asbestos roofing threat is hanging over 207 Nelson Mandela Bay schools, posing a risk to staff and pupils alike with the deadly fibres linked to life-threatening forms of cancer.

Crumbling infrastructure, overcrowding, teacher shortages, inadequate classrooms, crime and sanitation issues.These are some of the problems identified by MPLs conducting oversight visits at Eastern Cape schools.