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Out of the 24 793 public schools in South Africa 93% have no libraries, 95% have no science laboratories, 2 402 schools have no water supply, 46% still use pit latrine toilets and 913 schools have no toilets facilities. Equal Education has been campaigning for…

The 2012 European Foundation Centre's annual general assembly and conference wrapped up with a moving and powerful talk from Justice Albie Sachs of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Justice Sachs has worked his entire life for human rights and was a key figure in…

Nokhwezi Hoboyi. Photo: Samantha Reinders, TAC After losing two children to AIDS, Nokhwezi Hoboyi stopped her treatment and landed in a South African hospice with tuberculosis. "A nurse told me there was life after testing positive for HIV," Ms. Hoboyi said. Most importantly, she met…

Equal Education student members march for better school infrastructure. Photo: Equal Education Throngs of students protested outside the South African Parliament in Cape Town on a sunny afternoon in February 2011. Wearing green T-shirts and carrying handscrawled signs, they set up an outdoor classroom complete…

Messages of Hope and Solidarity for Gay South Africans Watch the videos of several Atlantic grantees who participated in the project.        Equal Education, It Gets Better  Gender DynamiX, It Gets Better  The Inner Circle, It Gets BetterOctober 11, Cape Town - A small group…

By Sinenhlanhla Gumede Keeping girls and boys apart in the classroom may be socially harmful to them, according to several educationists. Despite extensive research suggesting that both sexes do better academically and socially when they learn separately, educationists say mixed classes often adapt better after…

Wrenching cantata based on TRC testimony takes to the stage again, writes Robyn SassenBy Robyn Sassen When a brief season of composer Philip Miller's REwind was announced in Johannesburg three years ago, the news spread like wildfire - and the performances were all sold out in…

An important term used in healthcare in recent years has been 'evidence-based practice' or 'evidence-based medicine'.Healthcare practitioners have recognised that practices, techniques and therapies which have been long-used sometimes do not have a foundation in research. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) or evidence-based practice (EBP) seeks to…

The University of the Western Cape was established in 1959, during the days of apartheid, as a university for students classified as belonging to the “coloured” population of South Africa. During the past 30-plus years, the university has had a varied political, financial and academic…

FARANAAZ PARKER Civil society organisations on Wednesday warned that repressive laws, such as the proposed Protection of Information Bill (POI) would come back to haunt the state further down the line. "A Bill, once it's passed into law, does not stay in the statute books…