Author: Rachel Savage
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‘If you don’t get early years right, children are unlikely to catch up’: why South Africa is trying to reboot its school system
When she noticed children hanging around with nothing to do after school in the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto in 2016, Faith Nedoboni decided to start an after-school programme. But as she helped them with their homework, she realised many, some as old as 13, were struggling to read and write. Faith Nedoboni, principal of…
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Trump cuts aid to South Africa over ‘racial discrimination’ against Afrikaners
The US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order to cut financial assistance to South Africa, accusing the country’s government of “unjust racial discrimination” against white Afrikaners and offering them asylum in the US. The order criticised a law signed by the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, last month that allows for land to…
