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School’s guardhouse tender probed after 1m by 2m shack erected By Siphokazi Vuso Share Cape Town – A service provider that was awarded a tender to build a guardhouse for security at Vuselela Primary School in Khayelitsha has set tongues wagging after it built a 1m by 2m iron shack. Nalikhaya Constructions built the guardhouse in July after being nominated by the school governing body (SGB). The company lists Mcebisi Gantsho as a director in papers. He is said to be a husband of one of...

Deon Raath The ANC in the Western Cape legislature is demanding the full report into the controversial matric party that started all the trouble at Brackenfell High. ANC MPL Khalid Sayed said he had submitted a Promotion of Access to Information application to get it. He is not satisfied that the only information is in a statement from Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer. The ANC in the Western Cape legislature is demanding the full report into the controversial matric party that start...

WCED pressed to release report into Brackenfell High School matric event By Sisonke Mlamla Share Cape Town – The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) is under pressure to release the investigative report into the Brackenfell High School matric ball incident after it found no racist motives behind it. The department said last week the report contained confidential or sensitive information and it would not be appropriate to release it. The EFF said it was not surprised by Education MEC De...

Western Cape’s learner enrolment plans come under scrutiny By Sisonke Mlamla Share Cape Town - The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has been criticised for the “lack” of plans to address learner enrolment for next year. This after the department tabled its annual report for 2019/20 in the legislature earlier this week, noting the many problems that individual schools have in order to accommodate the yearly overflow of learners. ANC provincial spokesperson on education Kha...

Subjects? >> people are so busy there and theyre so motivated to move on with their lives, it was tough. we had a very good team at the magazine helping us, backing us up. we also had people on the ground in cairo that are fixers, if you will, that were making calls on our behalf. we were just lucky. we met some of them in the square and on the street. >> the energy that just jumps out of these photographs, this one that we see with this young gentleman in a blue coat, this young woman here with...

Years together. we met on the day before september 11th. we told the story. we tried to tell the story of what the emotions were at that time, what the people were feeling. we all know what 9/11 felt like, we were there in new orleans after katrina. this was special because these people have a new lease on life, a second chance. they have been owe pressed so many years under this regime and now theyre optimistic about their future. >> as we continue to look at some of these pictures here, tell u...

the president has had a couple meetings and we look at the planning going forward, 7:00 p.m. what do you know of what happened in the last meeting? >> well, its interesting, you mention that the leaders are going to be coming back here. richard, its hard to tell whether theres really some roll of your sleeves h bare knuckle negotiations going on. both sides are conscious of the fact the public is fed up. neither side wants to take the blame and a lot of this is prepositioning. you hear...