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With 80% of 10-year-olds unable to read for meaning, the government is prioritising literacy and numeracy among pre-school pupils as it tackles its education problems

I was shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor.

School mathematics in South Africa is often seen as a sign of the health of the education system more generally. Under the racial laws of apartheid, until 1994, African people were severely restricted from learning maths. Tracking the changes in maths performance is a measure of how far the country…

The South African writer, who has died aged 92, was grateful for his extraordinary life and wrote out of love rather than anger

The billionaire and now Trump adviser grew up amid the collapse of white rule, attending an all-white school and then a more liberal one

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “'Master Harold’

South African sculptor and painter James Delaney wants to encourage people in Johannesburg to engage with parks through public art

The actor recalls her interactions with one of South Africa’s greatest playwrights

South African playwright whose work dealt with the injustices and absurdities of the apartheid era

A giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island

Raoul Peck offers a lyrical documentary portrait of the late South African photographer who dared to show his country’s racist regime to the world