{"id":877080,"date":"2025-10-12T00:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/education-crisis-gauteng-parents-speak-out-on-frequent-school-closures-as-water-outages-disrupt-learning\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:21:18","slug":"education-crisis-gauteng-parents-speak-out-on-frequent-school-closures-as-water-outages-disrupt-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/education-crisis-gauteng-parents-speak-out-on-frequent-school-closures-as-water-outages-disrupt-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"EDUCATION CRISIS: Gauteng parents speak out on frequent school closures as water outages disrupt learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng\u2019s water crisis has worsened dramatically, forcing learners like 11-year-old Sandisiwe to carry their own water to school. With taps running dry and sanitation failing, schools are struggling to provide a safe, healthy environment, disrupting education and essential nutrition programmes. Activists and parents warn that the crisis is deepening educational inequalities&#8230; Laine Mcnaught<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2025-09-21-gauteng-parents-speak-out-on-frequent-school-closures-as-water-outages-disrupt-learning\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng\u2019s water crisis has worsened dramatically, forcing learners like 11-year-old Sandisiwe to carry their own water to school. With taps running dry and sanitation failing, schools are struggling to provide a safe, healthy environment, disrupting education and essential nutrition programmes. Activists and parents warn that the crisis is deepening educational inequalities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3824,1781],"tags":[6779,14196],"class_list":{"0":"post-877080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crisis","8":"category-education","9":"tag-crisis","10":"tag-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}