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Four dilapidated schools in Limpopo have dragged the government to court to force it to activate the Educational Infrastructure Grant (EIG) it suspended to divert money towards Covid-19 in 2020.
The public interest law clinic has launched an application in the North Gauteng High Court to reinstate infrastructure projects at four dilapidated Limpopo schools. For years, government has been promising to fix these schools.
Researchers have warned that SA’s health system is in need of an urgent overhaul, citing the slow progress in the past decade.
A high court judge who has been asked to order fresh disciplinary proceedings for two teachers has questioned whether this would be fair on them.
The Centre for Child Law, is taking the South African Council of Educators to court in a bid to secure harsher sanctions for two primary teachers who received what the organisations describe as “shockingly lenient” sanctions after pleading guilty to using corporal punishment in class.