Little Miss SA 2022 Avile Nkcita, 14, a pupil at Zingisa Comprehensive School, has become an unlikely hero at her school after managing to get the Nelson Mandela Museum to fund a library that will benefit hundreds of her fellow pupils.
Eastern Cape education MEC Fundile Gade has been criticised for his department’s failure to deliver essential drug testing kits to schools in the northern areas.
Education MEC Fundile Gade acknowledged some shortfalls during a visit to Gqeberha, and said his department planned to provide quality education and infrastructure for the province’s hundreds of thousands of pupils.
Suspended head of the Eastern Cape education department Dr Naledi Mbude has been languishing at home for a year on her annual salary of R1.8m while the department is playing musical chairs with acting department heads and at least 31 acting senior managers. The department has acknowledged in an internal memorandum in possession of the Dispatch that this leadership vacuum and lack of continuity of service in senior management is having a “negative effect” on its performance.
Shocking new details suggesting foul play have emerged in connection with the discovery of the body of four-year-old preschooler Langalam Viki who was found apparently drowned in an adult VIP pit latrine.