Tag: school
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School trip: Walking is the only option for two-thirds of SA’s learners
There are about 15.4-million school-going children in South Africa and almost two-thirds of them have to walk to school every day, according Statistics SA’s 2023 General Household Survey. Walking to school is not necessarily a bad thing but for many learners there are few alternatives. There is little in the way of school buses available to learners and public transport is equally limited…
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Schools still don’t meet minimum standards nine years after deadlines to fix them were put in place
The Department of Basic Education now appears to want to remove the deadlines altogether