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Bhisho news: Op-Ed: Too many children have died in unsafe schools

19 March 2018 By Port Elizabethan

Op-Ed: Too many children have died in unsafe schools: Last week, SECTION27, representing the Limpopo-based organisation Better Education for All (BEFA) was in the Bhisho High Court in the Eastern Cape as an “amicus curiae” (friend of the court) to support Equal Education’s case for effective school …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

GroundUp: Equal Education in court against Motshekga over broken schools: By Mary-Anne Gontsana and GROUNDUP Staff First published by GroundUp Learners and members of Equal Education (EE) gathered outside the Bhisho High Court on Wednesday with banners that read: “No more broken promises”. They were demanding infrastructure …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

South Africa: Equal Education in Court Against Motshekga Over Broken Schools: Learners and members of EE gathered outside the Bhisho High Court on Wednesday with banners that read: “No more broken promises”. They were demanding infrastructure plans to prioritise the Eastern Cape’s “forgotten schools”. A huge plastic doll satirised …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

Equal Education in court against Motshekga over broken schools: Learners and members of EE gathered outside the Bhisho High Court on Wednesday with banners that read: “No more broken promises”. They were demanding infrastructure plans to prioritise the Eastern Cape’s “forgotten schools”. A huge plastic doll …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

Sector in crisis over Bhisho non-payment: Thousands of Eastern Cape construction workers and their families are facing a bleak Easter as many of them will be retrenched with no pay at the end of this month, if the provincial government continues to default on paying their bosses. DESPERATE: EC …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

Bright Idea Bed & Breakfast Unit 5: It is easily accessible from all major routes. The provincial capital, Bhisho, is located a 5 minute drive away from Bright Idea B&B where the provincial government offices are located. Be sure to add this to one of your stops in the Eastern Cape.
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

GroundUp: A South African shame – children held in adult prison for 200 days without access to visitors: All the applicants had originally been sentenced to a period of compulsory residence at the Bhisho Child and Youth Care Centre. However, what the Centre for Child Law found was that the youths had been detained in Mdantsane Correctional Centre …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

Bhisho juggles its pennies as budget shrinks: Doing more with less. This is the tightrope that the Eastern Cape government has to walk this year to meet all its social and service delivery obligations while ensuring there is not a total collapse of the public purse. Still grappling with a R13-billion …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

Suspended Bhisho officials paid R1m to sit at home: Taxpayers have forked out more than R1-million in eighteen months paying the salaries of 10 Eastern Cape social development officials who are sitting at home on precautionary suspension. This department has 32 pending disciplinary cases against staff members.
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

All eyes on Bhisho budget allocations: Finance MEC Sakhumzi Somyo will reveal today how the Eastern Cape government plans to spend its money this year. Political parties said they expected more money to be pushed toward the health and education departments. DA MPL Jane Cowley said Somyo would …
Source: “Bhisho” – BingNews.

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