by AfriForum | Jun 11, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Education and leadership projects Media statements, Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum has just learnt that the 19 learners from Grey College in Bloemfontein who have been quarantined by the state since Tuesday will be released in the care of their parents and allowed to self-isolate for the remainder of the...
by AfriForum | Jun 11, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Education and leadership projects Media statements, Media statements
The AfriForum branches in the Eastern Cape donated 10 support packages to schools in this province as part of the #AfriForumStandsTogether for Schools project that was launched in cooperation with AfriForum Youth. These school support packages contain COVID-19...
by AfriForum | Jun 5, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Education and leadership projects Media statements, Media statements
AfriForum and AfriForum Youth on 5 June 2020 distributed more aid packages for schools all over the country as part of the #AfriForumStandsTogether for Schools project. This followed after requests from hundreds of schools were received by the civil rights watchdog...
by AfriForum | May 29, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Education and leadership projects Media statements, Media statements
AfriForum is still concerned over the ongoing plan by the Gauteng Department of Education, in which the department plans to deploy unemployed youths – between the ages of 18 and 35 – to schools in Gauteng. According to a media conference today, the brigades will have...
by AfriForum | May 19, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Education and leadership projects Media statements, Media statements
AfriForum is concerned about an advertisement of the Gauteng Department of Education that invites unemployed youths between the ages of 18 and 35 to apply for the opportunity to be trained as members of so-called COVID-19 school brigades. According to the...
by AfriForum | Apr 29, 2020 | Corona (Covid-19 ), In the community, Education and leadership projects Media statements, Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum welcomes the announcement by Angie Motshekga, Minister of Basic Education, today that schools will gradually open to resume the 2020 school year. According to current planning, schools will restart on 6 May 2020 for Grade 7 and...