When schools are too private for cultural diversity
Racism at schools has been in the national spotlight following protests over discriminatory hair regulations at Pretoria Girls High School in August, and South...
Denigrate The EFF At Your Own Peril: A Response To Prince...
Not so long-ago political analysts and mainstream commentators were already writing the eulogy of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) because of the election of...
I don’t have exes
A personal essay by Thembelihle Ngcai
I’m the only disabled person in my family. I was one of the very few visibly disabled people...
“Zuma’s free education plan impossible to implement” – analysts
On Saturday the presidency announced its resolutions on the funding of the higher education and training sector. It called for what is essentially a...
The Just Law Podcast Makes Justice Accessible To Ordinary People
In pursuit of social justice, a thirty-year-old Advocate Lunga Siyo, with the help of a friend, has founded a legal rights advocacy platform aimed...
June 16 | “We are not free” – a film by...
For #YouthDay 2022, Eh!woza spoke with young South Africans about the progress, the hardships and the missteps the country has made as a young...
Zuma’s free education plan will dump the costs onto academics
President Zuma dropped the bomb of all bombs on the FeesMustFall question on Saturday, declaring free and state-subsidised tertiary education. While the decision has...
How schools are failing pupils when they don’t report sexual violence
Schools are failing at preventing and dealing with sexual assault that happens on school property, according to Sheena Swemmer, a gender researcher at the...
SRC At DUT Alleges Corruption Over Suspensions
“Everything that is currently happening is politics at play because more of our students have been suspended and management is delaying the hearing until...
Albinism activist says we need to do something before the killings...
Mpho Tjope (33) resigned from his corporate job to dedicate himself as an albinism awareness activist. He says South Africa needs to do more...
Pragmatic solutions needed for the digital divide in South African schools
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has connected the world, yet we are even more disconnected from each other. We live in a reality where the...
UJ raised R147m for student fees. Should other universities follow suit?
The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has raised R147 million for missing middle students but just how long can the university keep it up for?...
The startling costs of funding the average South African family’s education
Financial services firm Discovery Life recently announced that the costs of sending your children to private school are rapidly increasing, at a rate of...
Betrayal: a poem on ‘unappointable’ black women in academia
On 9 December, the Council of the University of Cape Town appointed Lis Lange to the position of Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC): Teaching and...
Important Resources For The Lockdown
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on March 24 that South Africa would be going into a 21-day lockdown. These measures are being put in place...
The EFF Are Showing Us Academic Flames
#BlackExcellence was in full force at the graduation ceremony of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) commander-in-chief Julius Malema on Wednesday. Juju was awarded an...
Government Must Force Universities To Transform
It's been 22 years since the passing of Higher Education Act, Act 101 of 1997 and Education White Paper 3: A Programme for the...
So, what’s the best way to teach children about the history...
A private school in Johannesburg has clarified accusations that it had forced black students to carry a dompas as part of a school project.
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The state of civic education in South Africa
One of the biggest takeaways from the 2021 local government elections was a massive decline in voter turnout. There are a number of reasons...
Two Johannesburg teachers open up about their back to school anxieties
The opening of schools has been pushed back to February 15 by the department of basic education. This was in relation to the rising...
