As the 2026 school year begins, the 2025 National Senior Certificate results once again expose the deep inequalities in South Africa’s education system. Nationally, the pass rate rose to 88%, yet the Eastern Cape recorded the lowest provincial pass rate at 84.17%. While many learners deserve celebration, these results also demand renewed attention to the […]
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Benchmarking the future: Using FUNS to secure the Right to Read It was in the 2019 State of the Nation Address that President Cyril Ramaphosa first promised that every ten-year-old in South Africa would read for meaning by 2030. It was a bold commitment, one that, at the time, had little by way of a […]
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Next week, public interest lawyers, activists and community organisers gather at Wits University for the Public Interest Law Gathering on 22 to 23 October under the theme “Unfinished Freedom: interrogating the leaps between legal promises and lived realities.” The title is well chosen. South Africa’s institutions have accumulated policies, frameworks and court rulings that ought […]
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When Siphesihle Khumalo walked into her matric year, her focus was the same as every other learner’s: to finish school and take the next step toward her dreams. But in November 2024, just weeks before her final exams, she was told she could not write, not because of her grades or attendance, but because she […]