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Hamandawana Zhou

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Hamandawana Zhou

Hamandawana Zhou is a managing consultant at Skill Share Africa Institute.

Some schools are in areas characterised by violence, drug abuse and moral degeneration. For its part, the department of basic education has enacted a Guide to Drug Testing in South African Schools and School and Regulations For Safety Measures at Public Schools to ensure that our schools are safer. (Jekesai Njikizana/AFP)
EDUCATION

Do we want schools to babysit our children for 12 years or to teach them?

Schools do have the responsibility to assume some of the parents’ responsibilities but does not seek to replace the role of parents

  • Motshedisi Mathibe
  • Hamandawana Zhou
8 min read
Students protest for free education in Cape Town. (Photo by Shaun Swingler/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
CONSTITUTION

Restless Prejudice: Is higher education a right or privilege?

Fair discrimination requires all South Africans to have an equal chance to meet the minimum standard to access institutions of higher education

  • Motshedisi Mathibe
  • Hamandawana Zhou
7 min read