Gcina Ntsaluba
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Eastern Cape teacher assistants left without income after contract ends and funding hiatus (opens the original)
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Eastern Cape residents Nkululeko Diba and Nobadula Zanele are among 1.4 million young South Africans who have benefited â in the short term at least â from a huge youth employment project that has alleviated the daily stresses of teachers in about 23,000 schools since 2020. But now they are back home, and the projectâs future is uncertain. Nkululeko Diba wakes up every morning not knowing what to do with himself. For six months last year the 32-year-old from eBhofolo had a purpose. He arri
âDisgraceâ: Eastern Cape Education Department admits it unlawfully withheld billions from schools (opens the original)
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While about 1.58 million no-fee pupils have been denied support for three years, parents already surviving on grants have been asked to supply toilet paper, cleaning products and copying paper. The Eastern Cape Department of Education (ECDoE) admitted in the Makhanda High Court on Wednesday (19 August) that it was unlawful and unconstitutional to withhold billions of rands from public schools. But the schools will not get the money back. The case emanates from a 2020 decision by the department t
Eastern Capeâs tablet programme stalls with devices lost or locked in cupboards (opens the original)
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We contacted 12 schools and not one of them is still running the programme. At Mary Waters High School in Makhanda, educational tablets intended to support matrics are stored in a cupboard. The school received 115 of them at the start of 2025. The devices came preloaded with past papers, and each was to receive 50GB of mobile data at the start of every month. They were part of an Eastern Cape Department of Education programme that provided devices to 54,000 Grade 12 learners. This year, not one
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