BY KATLEHO MOHANOE – South Africa’s bishops are depending on the country’s priests to help implement their new pastoral plan, to be released this year, according to the coadjutor archbishop of Durban. Addressing the...
Church / Education / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published April 16, 2019 · Last modified April 15, 2019
After benefiting from 40 years of faithful service, a Catholic primary school bade farewell to a dedicated educator, secretary, bursar and librarian. Wenda Marsh retired from Uitenhage Convent Primary School, having first joined in...
Church / Education / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published March 14, 2019 · Last modified March 11, 2019
This year South Africa’s only Catholic university has more than 250 students registered across its various qualification offerings. And the number of students at St Augustine College in Johannesburg is expected to increase. “Applications...
Church / Crisis / Education / Erin Carelse / Schools
by Erin Carelse · Published February 27, 2019 · Last modified February 26, 2019
Holy Cross Primary School in District Six, Cape Town, has been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from the community and the provincial education department after a devastating fire earlier this month destroyed three...
Church / Church History / Education / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published February 3, 2019
QX Nobin, Pietermaritzburg – The state has announced a review of the CAPS (Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements) history syllabuses of Grades 4 to 12. So far, these history syllabuses have made no mention...
The freedom and creativity of playing can equip children for lifelong learning, as MARK POTTERTON explains. A quick Internet search will reveal that play allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination...
Janine Scott dos Santos’ son has autism, a condition still not understood well by society. Here she shares her journey. ‘These days, everybody has a label. When we were kids, there was no autism,...
Three Catholic missions in Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal are the sites for successful computer schools for disadvantaged rural youth, established by the Netherlands’ HomePlan Foundation. Students study for six months to sit exams for the...
by Tony Magliano · Published September 15, 2018 · Last modified September 17, 2018
While many Southern African children, teens and adults fortunate enough to have access to formal education are hard at work studying such subjects as science, math and the arts, the most important lessons to...
Church / Education / Religious Life
by Jael SC · Published August 30, 2018 · Last modified August 28, 2018
By Fr Paul Tatu CSS – The minister of Higher Education hailed the Good Shepherd Community Learning Centre, run by the Good Shepherd Sisters, during a visit to the facility in Madidi, North West Province....
Church / Church History / Education / Religious Life / Theology
by Christen Torres · Published August 28, 2018
St Augustine was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in Algeria, and was son of St Monica, the patron saint of difficult marriages, disappointing children and victims of verbal abuse.
Childhood and parenting have radically changed in the past few decades and this means that children today struggle to manage their behaviour.
