About 2400 Eastern Cape schools will be left without stationery for the remainder of the school term after a tender awarded by the provincial Department of Education to deliver writing materials to Se...

Jubilation that more than 4000 temporary teachers would be reinstated at Eastern Cape schools from today was tempered as it emerged that thousands of teachers and pupils across the province ould be wi...

  http://www.theherald.co.za/article.aspx?id=613056   2010 10 08 Schools take government to court over lack of resources   IN what could be a landmark case, seven schools in the Eastern C...

 http://m.dispatch.co.za/(S(0uz14y2t5uadnw45r24i5255))/default.aspx?id=12&articleid=438926 2010 10 08  School building project starts up again   A TRANSKEI school can now claim victory af...

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=122748   2010 10 05 Schools sue state over lack of resources   SEVEN schools in the Eastern Cape's poverty-stricken OR Tambo district, n...

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=437199   2010 10 01 ECape to oppose action by mud schools THE Eastern Cape government has opposed an application by seven Transkei schools for the ...

http://writingrights.org/2010/09/26/eastern-cape-mud-schools-43-chairs-for-323-learners/   2010 09 26 Eastern Cape Mud Schools: 43 chairs for 323 learners 1.1   Eastern Cape Mud Schools: ...

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-09-21-mud-schools-wait-on-state-response 2010 09 21 'Mud schools' wait on state response   Seven "mud schools" in the rural Eastern Cape might have to wait unti...

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/EC-mud-schools-to-sue-state-20100831 2010 08 31 EC mud schools to sue state East London - Seven mud schools in the Eastern Cape are suing the government over...

W HEN we wake up to tempera­tures of -13°C in the south-east Free State it's hard to believe that anywhere in South Africa could possibly be colder. But the tiny Eastern Cape dorp of Molteno claim...

VOLUNTARY organisations caring for extremely mentally handicapped chil­dren have asked the Western Cape High Court to order the province - and the central government - to increase the subsidy paid fo...

On the 14 June 2010, the Western Cape Forum for Intellectual Disability is taking the national and the Western Cape governments to the Western Cape High Court for failure to provide basic education to...

IT WILL take the Social Development Department at least 18 months to clear the national backlog of disability grant appeals, currently standing at an unbelievable 66000. This is the department's res...

He came to South Africa alone when he was only 12 and lived on the streets for more than two years. Today he is 20 and close to qualifying as a chef. But Goodluck Juma is now facing the threat of imm...

On 14 May 2010 the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries published a notice prohibiting the use of chlorpyrifos as an active ingredient in households, home, garden and domestic remedies. ...

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South Africa's Public education system is in serious decline. Reports of dismal graduation rates, bad teachers and crumbling buildings are commonplace. In Eastern Cape Province, one of the poorest reg...

The department of social development has tabled an amendment to the Social Assistance Act that civil society organisations believe may worsen the department's enormous backlog in responding to grant a...

LIFE could get even tougher for close to 100 orphaned and abandoned Molteno children.They are being denied foster-care grants - and face the possibility of also losing the care of their foster parents...

THE Centre for Child Law will take Social Development Minister Edna Molewa and an Eastern Cape MEC to court for failing to extend foster grant orders made by the children's court, the Legal Resources ...