Parents who give their children a hiding will no longer be able to use the defence of ‘reasonable chastisement’ if they are later accused of assault. This comes after the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg ruled on Thursday that parents can’t be exempted from the law, even when their[…]
Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer has urged principals to release the report cards of all pupils, regardless of whether they had outstanding debt with the school or not. “My office received a number of complaints from parents last year that schools had refused to release their children’s reports cards[…]
A recent video of a child being bullied at school has sparked outrage after going viral. The 24-second video was recorded at Fairbairn College in Goodwood and then later posted onto Facebook by the victim’s mother, Shamsoenisa Gordon-De Jager. The video shows the victim, Raaziek Camroodien, lying in the foetal[…]
While South Africans continue to battle the scourge of sexual abuse cases that involve children, the recent surfacing of a Gumtree tutoring add by a repeat child abuse offender has community members concerned for the safety of their children. Brian Shofer, as named by the Sunday Independent, enlisted his tutoring[…]
rents of UWC students say they will stand by the #FeesMustFall campaign and have demanded an independent inquiry into the recent flare up of protest action on campus that lead to the arrest of 16 students. On Thursday, 16 students accused of grievous bodily harm, malicious damage to property and[…]
The parents of the first American killed by Islamic State radicals say the U.S. government failed them during their son’s long capture. Diane and John Foley spoke before a large crowd at the University of Arizona on Thursday. The panel included Terry Anderson, the former Associated Press bureau chief who[…]
As the final 2014 school year comes to an end, parents at Disa primary school in Hout Bay were met with disappointment after they were hoping to share the last celebrations with their children at the school graduation ceremony on Tuesday. But one parent who was looking forward to seeing[…]
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