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National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mpaisa-Nqakula (left) and President Cyril Ramaphosa (right) tour the Cape Town City Hall ahead of the State of the Nation Address on 10 February 2022. Picture: GCIS

Equal education

Equal Education calls for clear plan from Ramaphosa to support education sector

By Veronica Mokhoali

Equal Education said the future of South Africa remained bleak unless teaching and learning was restored.

  • FILE: Grade 7 pupils at a Western Cape primary school on 1 June 2020 sit in class after schools reopened following a national coronavirus lockdown, which started on 27 March 2020. Picture: @WCEDnews/Twitter.

    Equal Education adds voice to calls for govt to end rotational learning

    The organisation said that if this did not happen, the country would be confronted with a lost generation of learners.

    208 days ago
  • FILE: It has urged government to urgently abandon rotational timetables and safely reopen schools for all pupils. Picture: Eyewitness News

    Equal Education calls for govt to stop rotational learning

    Equal Education added that while extra support was put in place to help matriculants prepare for the National Senior Certificate exams, they had additional challenges to contend with.

    209 days ago
  • FILE: A pupil receives a meal at Kgato Primary School in Bloemfontein. Picture: Department of Basic Education/Twitter

    EE vows to keep an eye on schools to ensure dept complies with nutrition ruling

    Equal Education approached the courts with an urgent application against the Department of Basic Education and eight provincial education MECs after it found the department was in breach of a previous court order granted a year ago.

    391 days ago
  • Screengrab from Equal Education's campaign video calling for the Department of Basic Education to feed pupils.

    Equal Eduaction welcomes court ruling forcing dept to feed pupils

    This applies even when schools are closed due to COVID-19 or learners are at home because of rotating timetables.

    392 days ago
  • FILE: A pupil receives a meal at Kgato Primary School in Bloemfontein. Picture: Department of Basic Education/Twitter

    Equal Education heads back to court over schools feeding schemes

    The group said the department was in breach of a previous court order granted a year ago. That order directed them to ensure that pupils were given a daily meal in terms of the national school nutrition programme, whether they were attending school or not.

    407 days ago
  • A South African healthcare worker receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Sadtu, EE optimistic ahead of COVID-19 vaccine rollout for teachers

    The Basic Education Department announced on Sunday that the programme would kick off on Wednesday and end on 8 July.

    422 days ago
  • FILE: She was attending an annual Equal Education camp at the Palm Springs Resort. Picture: @equal_education/Twitter.

    Calls mount for Equal Education to be held accountable for drowning of pupil

    Grade 10 pupil Avethandwa Nokhangela was caught in a rip current while swimming at a beach near East London last month. Her body was discovered the following morning.

    450 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    Family of EC teen who drowned at EE camp still traumatised & devastated

    About two weeks ago, fifteen-year-old Avethandwa Nokhangela was caught in a rip current while swimming at a beach near East London and her body was discovered washed up the following morning.

    455 days ago
  • FILE: Avethandwa Nokhangela got caught in a rip current- while swimming at a beach near East London. Picture: Pixabay.com.

    Equal Education almost done with probe into teen's drowning at leadership camp

    Fifteen-year-old Avethandwa Nokhangela got caught in a rip current while swimming at a beach near East London last Thursday and her body was discovered on the beach the following morning.

    467 days ago
  • Picture: arsenisspyros/123rf.com

    DBE backs call for full probe into pupil's drowning at Equal Education camp

    Avethandwa Nokhangela (15) got swept out to sea while swimming at a beach near East London on Thursday and her body was discovered washed up the following morning.

    468 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied

    Equal Education calls for release of KZN scholar transport policy

    Equal Education activists staged a picket outside the department’s offices in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday and called for the release of a finalised learner transport policy.

    481 days ago
  • Goza Primary School in Soweto has been fighting for six years for access to safe drinking water on its premises, despite several promises by the Gauteng Department of Education to resolve the crisis. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Equal Education says lack of water at Goza Primary is unlawful

    Earlier on Monday, Eyewitness News reported on how the school has been fighting for six years to get the provincial Department of Education to address the problem.

    492 days ago
  • Picture: 123rf.com

    After COVID-19 budget cuts, education sector hopes for relief to resume projects

    Infrastructure projects to ensure water supply and safe sanitation at schools had to be halted as government made tough decisions due to COVID-19.

    541 days ago
  • Picture: 123rf.com

    Govt is too slow to implement norms and standards for school infrastructure - EE

    According to the regulations, all schools should be provided with enough classrooms, electricity, water, and internet by Sunday.

    629 days ago
  • FILE: Rights groups said they were worried that the rollout plan filed by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga was not a clear and logical one. Picture: GCIS

    Equal Education disappointed by substance of DBE's school nutrition scheme

    Equal Education’s Noncedo Madubedube said they had received the plan and they were not impressed by it.

    741 days ago
  • FILE: A pupil receives a meal at Kgato Primary School in Bloemfontein. Picture: Department of Basic Education/Twitter

    'Give us our daily bread' - DBE ordered to resume schools' nutrition programme

    The High Court in Pretoria has ordered the department to resume the national schools’ nutrition programme to all eligible pupils with immediate effect, regardless of whether they are back in class.

    760 days ago
  • Protesters call for the closure of schools as COVID-19 infection increase. The protest took place in Retreat on 25 June 2020. Picture: Supplied

    EE: Whatever the decision on schools, there’ll be consequences for pupils

    The basic education department said it's consulting all role-players in the sector before meeting with cabinet over the weekend to make a final decision.

    762 days ago
  • Picture: 123rf.com

    Unions, rights groups say schools lacking COVID-19 essentials should not reopen

    On Monday, grade R, 6 and 11 pupils across the country returned to school after spending months at home under lockdown.

    771 days ago
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