CUTTHROAT COMPETITION Educational publishers’ dirty textbook tricks revealed to Parliament 6 min 9 By Rebecca Davis
TECH IN EDUCATION (PART 2) The hidden costs of digital learning — how monopolies stunt education in SA 5 min 0 By Lindsey Schutters
HISTORY OVERHAUL Have your say as draft history curriculum recasts the past through an African lens 5 min 4 By Takudzwa Pongweni
BREAKING THE CYCLE How the education department plans to keep pregnant learners in school 6 min 0 By Takudzwa Pongweni
CORRUPTION COMBAT Inside the alleged fight against the clean-up at the Department of Basic Education 7 min 14 By Rebecca Davis
OPEN LETTER I will not let corrupt networks steal the future of 13 million SA children 6 min 16 By Siviwe Gwarube
CRYING SHAME Children go hungry while R336m for early childhood nutrition remains unspent 9 min 6 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
By Erin Faure Vaal school transport crash highlights why pupils’ safety cannot only be the right of the privileged 4 min 2 2 February 2026
SCHOOL PLACEMENT UPROAR KZN government condemns anti-migrant violence at Durban’s Addington Primary 5 min 0 By Naledi Sikhakhane
By Ishrene Davids We obsess over matric results, but SA’s education crisis begins long before Grade 12 3 min 0 14 January 2026
CAPACITY CRUNCH Emotional day as unplaced learners, flooding and overcrowding mar first day of school 9 min 1 By Lerato Mutsila, Azwidhowi Mamphiswana, Siyabonga Goni, Kyran Blaauw, Naledi Sikhakhane
RIGHT OF REPLY Government is not hiding matric pass rate numbers; the critics are just ignoring them 5 min 3 By Hubert Mathanzima Mweli
CLASS OF 2025 Matric 2025 results: All you need to know about release dates, access and next steps 4 min 0 By Takudzwa Pongweni
By Muhammad Coovadia SA’s ‘education’ system is warehousing children, not educating them 7 min 3 2 January 2026
By Siviwe Gwarube Why South Africa’s strategic reorientation of its basic education system is now irreversible 5 min 0 10 December 2025
By Esmè van Deventer We planted Caps in 2012 — we’re harvesting the educational failure in 2025 4 min 0 25 November 2025
ISS TODAY Violent school bullying a reflection of SA’s broken society 4 min 0 By Thandi van Heyningen
PUPIL SAFETY Empowering learners by addressing the root causes of violence in SA schools 7 min 0 By Emihle Tima, Makanatsa Ziyambi and Yolisa Piliso
GROUNDUP Ten years after Komape tragedy, many Limpopo schools are still using pit toilets 8 min 0 By Liezl Human for GroundUp
TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING OP-ED Open letter to Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube on Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education 3 min 0 By Bua-lit Collective
