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Mokhudu Machaba is one of the finalists in the Global Teacher Prize. She is a teacher at the Ngwanamago Primary School in GaMothiba, Limpopo. She overcame great odds including a teenage pregnancy to qualify as a teacher and is now applying technology in her lessons to foundation phase learners. (Photo: Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)

Q&A Sessions: ‘A good teacher must love the kids’

As a child, Mokhudu Machaba had to cross a flooded river on her way to school in rural Limpopo. She fell pregnant at 15 but returned to complete her matric and found employment…

Universities have taken steps such as deactivating their biometric systems to combat the spread of coronavirus.

To the first-years from rural and township schools: Don’t despair

My colleagues and I were talking about our experiences as first-year students and how things can get particularly difficult if you come from a rural or township school. This…

Refilwe Lesufi, owner of Prana Consulting

Women entrepreneurs make it with WRC’s support

Refilwe Lesufi says there is an urgent need to create off-grid solutions in rural areas

Teachers

Teachers, pull yourselves together and prepare your lessons

Educators need to stop playing victim and plan to teach in less favourable conditions

Public health

‘Varsity doesn’t prepare us to teach in rural areas’

Schools on farm and communal land are multigrade, resources are minimal and the lifestyle change is a shock

Learners walking to school on a cold winter morning in June 2017.

KZN pupils head to court over school transport

A case will be heard in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday morning on whether or not provincial government is liable to provide transport.

Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille fought a long battle against a faction of her own party, which included going to court. The battle is over but everyone is bloodied. (David Harrison/M&G)

Damning rural schools report suppressed

A leaked document shows the crippling effect of powerful unions and cronyism on basic education.

Grassroots knowledge: Pupils’ own backgrounds can provide fertile classroom materials.

Making education more homely

Informal learning not only can, but should, be used as the foundation for formal schooling.

Rural KZN school gets A+ for pass rates

A principled principal has enjoyed tremendous success by instilling self-confidence in his pupils.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and then-president Thabo Mbeki in 2000.

At Kharkams, they learn by heart

Community conquers all at the school in Namaqualand where no one gets left behind.

The schools that defy the odds

A documentary series asks what poor schools that excel are doing differently.

Rural schools beat the odds

Limited resources didn’t stop a small rural community from excelling in science.

Sexual abuse rampant at rural schools

Mpumalanga’s education department has dismissed 60 teachers for sexually abusing pupils in the past five years, the province has disclosed.

Opening up young minds

Winner — Investing in the Future Education Award: Ntataise.

Biology in the bush

Shepherd Mandhlazi writes about the highs and lows of teaching in rural areas where there’s more livestock than there are laboratories.