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The panel was moderated by Robert Shivambu (far left) and included, from left, Elijah Mhlanga from the DBE, Matakanye Matakanya of the NASGB, education activist Ayanda Makebenge, Shenilla Mohamed of Amnesty International South Africa, and Samantha Brener of Section27. (Amnesty International)

South Africa’s education system is broken and unequal, and must be fixed without further delay

The Amnesty International report found that the South African government continues to miss its own education upgrading targets

Human rights atrocity: A damaged classroom at a school in Damascus, Syria. Millions of children around the world are not being schooled as a result of conflict. (Macd el Ahmad/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Don’t drop the ball, for our children’s sake

Conflicts and crises impede the implementation of the UN’s fourth sustainable development goal

Until South Africa’s higher education system produced African-centred knowledge that was internationally recognised

No tidy truths in the post-colony

Recent debate exposes both student activists’ and academics’ blind spots on decolonisation

Technologies such as block chain reinforce this in business, government, civil society and the academy, where ethical and transparent communication is key (John McCann/M&G)

Important education lessons from Havana

Cuba’s education builds on cultural and national identity, parents’ involvement and multigrade schools.

Women are at the bottom of the pile when policies are designed without them.

Unite both the head and the hand

We can overcome education models that still entrench social divisions.

Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has made sweeping changes to the government. (Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP)

Angie’s new school norms a slap in the face

Long-awaited draft school infrastructure standards are a shocking disappointment, educationists say.

Pupils have filed a high court application saying learning conditions at Moshesh Senior Secondary School violates their right to education.

ECape pupils: ‘Teachers hit us until our hands bleed’

Horrendous hostel facilities, physical abuse by teachers and inconsistent recording of marks are some of the pupils’ complaints.

History is a means of peering into the past in order to get a sense of one’s present and who we are as a people

History, a wise but ignored teacher

History is a means of peering into the past in order to get a sense of one’s present and who we are as a people, writes Mpho Moshe Matheolane.

Patrick Wisani during his appearance at the South Gauteng High Court sitting at the Randburg Magistrate’s Court.

Age is no impediment to doing my job

Mduduzi Manana writes to Professor Peter Vale to say he is committed to delivering quality education in South Africa.

This week Equal Education marched through the streets of Tembisa to mobilise the community in its fight for fair and quality education.

Marching for equal education

This week Equal Education marched through the streets of Tembisa to mobilise the community in its fight for fair and quality education.

The presidency is the latest to dig into the Limpopo textbook saga

Service provider denies dumping workbooks

The culprits who dumped Limpopo school workbooks near a Limpopo dam were still unknown by the end of the week and the saga had only deepened.

Zakes Ncanywa has returned to Peddie with big ideas to revolutionise the area.

‘No textbooks? I’ll print them for you …’

Canny entrepreneur Zakes Ncanywa has offered study guides and cheap computers to a resource-starved town. Nick Mulgrew spent some time with him.

Senzo Mchunu. (M&G)

KZN Education Budget

"Our core business as the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education is curriculum delivery in schools," says MEC for Education Senzo Mchunu.

Legally surly: Deputy Education Minister Enver Surty called court action ‘sensationalist’.

Talk to us instead, says minister

Litigation distracts the basic education department, it argues — but NGOs say dire school conditions force them to approach the courts.

Khethelo Xulu had to fight for his education

Fighting all odds: A young South African inspires

Khethelo Xulu had to fight for his education, now he wants to fight for others. This year’s 200 South Africans will be revealed on June 22.

Forcing politicians to use public services will make a difference

In a letter to the president and the DA, the national co-ordination committee of the national Imbizo asks politicians to start using public services.

Haunted by his mother’s unemployment and alcoholism

‘I want my friends to stay in school’

Haunted by his mother’s unemployment and alcoholism, teenage photographer Morgan Faku is driven to document the fate of Alexandra’s school dropouts.

Education yellow cards could go red

More than two months after delivering "yellow cards" to government education activists Equal Education are yet to receive any response.