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Students and teachers are drawn from across southern Africa and beyond to the unusual school in rural North West Province. Counting among its alumni the Botswana elite and more than one president, Tiger Kloof's history reflects the history of South Africa – and its new dawn.

The annual African Education Week and Career Indaba came to a close on Saturday 23 June, having generated optimism, motivation, opportunity – and controversy, in the form of keynote speaker Dr Mamphela Ramphele.
• Science school comes to Mvezo

Jeremiah Moreo is determined his pupils will do well in maths and science, despite not having a stocked laboratory. Doing his best for his classes has even meant he has moved towns to be near them all the time.

The Vodacom Mobile Education Programme’s newest ICT resource centre officially opened its doors, with the aim of boosting teacher training in maths and science in Vhembe, Limpopo.

Working with the University of Stellenbosch's Institute for Maths and Science Teaching, Vodacom is offering live video lectures to teachers at its ICT resource centres.

As the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign draws near its close, a former teacher serving a 14-year jail term for rape calls on South Africa's men to respect, love and protect women and children.

South Africa's Department of Education has teamed up with Investec and the Independent Schools Association of SA to improve teaching in mathematics, science and English via the "Teacher Assist Approach" initiative.

The future of education is mobile, it seems, and getting information to disadvantaged schools is becoming a whole lot easier, thanks to Ogle kiosks, which offer educational content that can be saved to any mobile device.
• Education goes mobile with Vodacom

Multiple award-winning dancer, choreographer, teacher and development activist Mamela Nyamza, the 2011 Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winner for Dance, started using dance to translate the world around her as a child growing up in Gugulethu in the 1980s.

Teacher training and development will be top priority in South African education over the coming years, guided and supported by the recently launched Strategic Planning Framework for Teacher Education and Development.