Author: Phumla Mkize

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Gauteng social development, NGOs to sign service agreements
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‘No preschool for millions of kids in SA’

A total of 1.3 million children aged three to five years do not have access to any form of early learning programme in South Africa.These startling figures were... Read more.
NPA fake document
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‘Prosecutor training programme not cancelled but under review’- NPA

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has moved in to quell speculation that it has canned its annual training programme for aspirant prosecutors. Following ... Read more.
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Editorial

Bleak news ushers in Youth Month

What a month to be a youth in South Africa. The past few weeks have forced us to look into the state of our future generation with one gloomy report after anoth... Read more.
Bheki Cele
Education

Pupils behind a third of murders on school grounds

More than a third of murders committed in institutions of learning in South Africa during the first quarter of this year were perpetrated by pupils, according t... Read more.
News

Devasted parents identify bodies of pupils killed in Cape Town

They last saw them when they left for school on Tuesday morning and on Wednesday morning devastated parents of five pupils killed in an accident in Mitchells Pl... Read more.
Santaco accident
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Accident involving unregistered scholar transport claims five lives

Five pupils were killed and two others sustained injuries when a bakkie transporting them to school was involved in an accident in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town on... Read more.
Kodwa
Education

‘Organs of state fail to use all official languages’

The Cultural, Linguistic and Religious Rights (CRL) Commission has recommended that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) should criminalise government depar... Read more.
Business

Healthy foods getting heavier in the pocket

It was the kind of news that brought me relief this week. And it was not because it was good news. Far from it. In fact, it was bad news, but at least it confir... Read more.