UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE Eastern Cape official in deeper hot water after defying suspension order 2 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
MEDICAL EMERGENCY Food poisoning source not yet identified at Mthatha school after 169 fall ill 3 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
SEXUAL VIOLENCE Girl raped in Eastern Cape school ‘house of horrors’ to receive R5m in damages 4 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
FLOODS Residents evacuated as dams overflow, rivers burst banks in latest flooding in Kariega 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
HOPE IN A SUITCASE From jealousy to joy: Eastern Cape schools embrace revolutionary wheelie bag desks for learning 4 min 8 By Estelle Ellis
GROUNDUP King promises to help as extortion cripples Mthatha schools and businesses 5 min 3 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
LETTER FROM THE DM168 EDITOR Why are so many people eager to fall on their spears for Jacob Zuma? 3 min 12 By Unknown Author
LEGAL ACTION Eastern Cape schools head to court after education department slashes next year’s budget 4 min 4 By Estelle Ellis
ABSENT MEALS Probe into Eastern Cape school nutrition scheme funding delays that left more than a million learners hungry 3 min 0 By Will Clark
GROUNDUP Eastern Cape schools to finally receive missing R872.5-million in learner subsidies from education department 4 min 0 By Rod Amner
CLASSROOM CRISIS Middelburg parents shut down high school with no water, no toilets and no teachers for 250 pupils 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
DELIVERY FAILURE Nearly R1bn — cost of a soured Eastern Cape school tablet deal with Iqbal Survé-linked group 4 min 11 By Tembile Sgqolana
MAVERICK CITIZEN EASTERN CAPE At least 800 Port Elizabeth pupils left hungry after theft of school food supplies 5 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
SCORPIO ANC-linked IT firm owned by Iqbal Survé’s Ayo bags questionable R160m lockdown e-learning deal 5 min 0 By Pieter-Louis Myburgh for Scorpio
GROUNDUP Deaf children must wait, says Eastern Cape Department of Education 2 min 0 By Mkhuseli Sizani for GroundUp
Maverick Citizen Victory for education activists as department starts unannounced school visits 3 min 0 By Estelle Ellis