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R6,600 a month to catch up: Inside SAâs costly private tutoring market (opens the original)
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A new analysis of 750 tutoring listings shows that one-to-one matric tuition now reaches up to R750 an hour in South Africa. As schools increasingly direct struggling learners to outside help, families are left paying double for basic education while agencies take cuts of more than 50% from the tutors on the ground. When the term report lands and the maths mark is in the red, many South African parents face a familiar dread: another term gone, another set of concepts missed â and no affordable
Gautengâs school safety crisis: raids, CCTV and private security at 245 highârisk schools (opens the original)
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The Gauteng Education Department has turned to hard security, SAPS searchâandâseize raids (23 schools so far), private guards at 422 schools and CCTV systems at 606 sites (including a Vodacom partnership) seizing knives, pangas, drugs and vapes. Badirile Secondary School in Khutsong, Carletonville, has become a grim symbol of Gautengâs school safety crisis. During a South African Police Service-led (SAPS) search-and-seizure operation, authorities found knives, a panga, drugs, vapes and oth
Inside CityKidz, the Joburg CBD school beating global odds (opens the original)
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Behind a bright boundary fence in central Johannesburg, CityKidz is shattering every misconception about inner-city education. Fuelled by dedicated teachers, parent collaboration, and whole-school commitment, this inner-city school pairs global Stem victories with a culture built on safety, kindness and character. On any given weekday, the Johannesburg inner city is a wall of noise. The pavements are packed with hawkers selling items while minibus taxis edge through heavy traffic, hooting for pa
Metro Lives panel explores why Johannesburgâs renewal will fail without its young people (opens the original)
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Johannesburgâs renewal cannot succeed without the meaningful participation of its young people. At a Metro Lives dialogue hosted by the DG Murray Trust at Constitution Hill, speakers and youth activists discussed food insecurity, public safety, exclusion, municipal budgets and the need to place children and young people at the centre of the cityâs future. If Johannesburg is to rebuild itself, its young people cannot remain on the sidelines. The cityâs renewal depends on treating them not a
Seven SA high schoolers crowned Nasa space champions (opens the original)
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Seven Western Cape teenagers just made history as the first South African team to compete, and win, at the prestigious International Space Settlement Design Competition. For a tense moment inside Nasaâs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Benjamin Honigwachs thought the judges were playing a practical joke. The volunteers announcing the winners began by celebrating nearly everyone else before his multinational coalition, a simulated aerospace company named âRockdonnellâ, was finally announced
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