Education
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
![](https://theafrican.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/EG0x9e0LmfZlsD3-7f3JjzD8-nk-300x169.jpg)
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
![](https://theafrican.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/D1qcsDqeuH5hF8NQW6mTbiFUL7k-300x199.jpg)
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
![](https://theafrican.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/7cb8208f-fb13-55c1-b54b-d60679576e88-300x213.jpg)
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
![](https://theafrican.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/kclvN8zciJgNTfGRqHAuRwP_AUc-300x200.jpg)
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