The story of South African education in 2024 is one of controversy and crisis, dominated by the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act and overshadowed by persistent ...
Naledi Pandor, the country’s former International Relations Minister who also previously served as Minister of Science Technology, said several universities could ...
While not a panacea for the system’s challenges, the BELA Bill is a step towards improving education quality through learning and teaching, but it needs a committed ...
I Can Academy in Parkwood, Cape Town, where children listen to their dedicated teacher, Alletta Frans, as she reads to them during a lesson. While not a panacea ...
StarSat’s closure will leave only one operator in the satellite TV space and 500000 subscribers high and dry
There is no doubt of the impact of the NIC on the country’s politics – and history – especially its role in forming the United Democratic Front in 1983, which mobilised ...
ANC Veterans, from left, Kgalema Motlanthe, Sbu Ndebele and Mac Maharaj at the celebration of 130 years of the Natal Indian Congress. There is no doubt of the impact ...
All ministers, united under the banner of the Government of National Unity, have pledged to serve all the people of South Africa, giving a strong sense of reassurance ...
Minister Siviwe Gwarube, like a petulant child, boycotted the family function to sign the BELA bill that will give children better education opportunities hosted ...
By Edwin NaiduThirty years of democracy has not dimmed the recurring narrative over exorbitant vice-chancellors’ salaries. The ongoing issue over high salaries should ...
University of Johannesburg’s former vice-chancellor and principal, Professor Ihron Rensburg – who has overseen an amalgamation of three institutions, then passed ...
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 taken ...
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 progress ...
The gross domestic expenditure on research and development (Gerd) in South Africa has gone up in real terms for the first time in four years, driven strongly by ...
OPINION: Anecdotal evidence shows that billions are spent on education with little good to show for it, writes Edwin Naidu.
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 ...
Picture: Picture: Oupa Mokoena / African News Agency (ANA) / Taken September 19, 2023 – Buti Manamela, the deputy minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation ...
Picture: Tracey Adams/African News Agency (ANA) – UCT’s former vice-chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng. Is Phakeng the (Professor William Malegapuru) Makgoba ...
Picture: Rusana Philander/African News Agency (ANA) Files – Romano Louw, 18, from Mitchells Plain, speaks at the Nelson Mandela Youth Dialogue about violence in ...
Picture: ANA File – Statistics currently reveal that half of the countries have no data on learning levels or the percentage of trained teachers in primary schools, ...
Picture: Timothy Bernard African News Agency (ANA) – A class teacher shares a group hug with her class as she welcomes them for 2023. Africa will need 15 million ...
Picture: ANA file – The South Cape TVET College. The three-stream model, which refers to three pathways – academic, technical vocational and technical occupational ...
Council offers to drop charges with ‘sweetheart’ deal.
Picture: Jacques Naude/African News Agency (ANA) – Dr Yaa Ashante Waa Archer Ngidi from the Institute of Afrikology speaking at the 1st annual Black History Month ...
Picture: Bruce Mackay/Supplied – One of the biggest public sector demonstrations for decades in London, UK, on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. In the UK, members of ...