Education
Firing NSFAS board is papering over the cracks
National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) CEO Andile Nongogo was fired in October 2023 amid a R47-billion payments scandal, yet no action has yet been
Literacy for liberation: Zambia’s Socialist Party fights illiteracy
Over 350 people, majority women, graduated from the Second Phase of the Fred M’membe Literacy and Agroecology Campaign Programme. Since 2021, over 4,000 people in
Long road ahead for higher education transformation
The University of Cape Town honours students at a summer graduation ceremony outside Sarah Baartman Hall on its upper campus. While there has been much
Proposal to prosecute parents for children’s absenteeism slammed
Picture: Courtney Africa – Children have lunch at Sentinel Primary, Hout Bay, Cape Town. The Grade R class children are at school from 8am to
What happens to learners when they are left in the lurch by the organisation meant to help them?
Picture: Supplied / ANA – Scores of students are being denied the opportunity to work in the sector dealing with long-term insurance, short-term insurance, life
The country’s leaders need to set an example
Picture: Picture: Oupa Mokoena / African News Agency (ANA) / Taken September 19, 2023 – Buti Manamela, the deputy minister of Higher Education, Science and
Africa Day 2024: ‘To build a country, build a schoolhouse’
Huguenot Primary School teachers Kulsum Nel and Charmaine Botha with Grade Rs make do with what they have after winter storms leave Tafelsig pupils without
Firing NSFAS board is papering over the cracks
National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) CEO Andile Nongogo was fired in October 2023 amid a R47-billion payments scandal, yet no action has yet been
Literacy for liberation: Zambia’s Socialist Party fights illiteracy
Over 350 people, majority women, graduated from the Second Phase of the Fred M’membe Literacy and Agroecology Campaign Programme. Since 2021, over 4,000 people in
Long road ahead for higher education transformation
The University of Cape Town honours students at a summer graduation ceremony outside Sarah Baartman Hall on its upper campus. While there has been much
Proposal to prosecute parents for children’s absenteeism slammed
Picture: Courtney Africa – Children have lunch at Sentinel Primary, Hout Bay, Cape Town. The Grade R class children are at school from 8am to
What happens to learners when they are left in the lurch by the organisation meant to help them?
Picture: Supplied / ANA – Scores of students are being denied the opportunity to work in the sector dealing with long-term insurance, short-term insurance, life