DBE 'catch up plan' a violation of the court order and the agreement between SECTION27 and the Minister of Basic Education

By cindy, 3 August 2012 Posted in: News, Right to Access Basic Education, Textbooks

PROGRESS REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GRADE 10 CATCH 28 JULY 2012

Our Week ahead: 3 – 7 July 2017

By admin, 3 July 2017

Posted in: News

Over the past weekend Basic Education for All (BEFA) held its electoral conference in Tzaneen Limpopo. BEFA activists from across the province came together to talk about the issues facing the Limpopo education system, as well as make strategic plans about how BEFA can overcome these challenges to bring about much needed change.

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SOUTH AFRICA: STOP BLINDLY HANDING OUT PATENTS!

By cindy, 17 October 2013

Posted in: Access to medicines, News, Right to Access Healthcare

Health activists hand-over comments on Draft Policy to Dept. of Trade & Industry, supporting patent law reform 2013-10-17 PRETORIA – Marching in support of government-proposed patent law reforms, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), and SECTION27 today handed their submission commenting on the Draft National Policy on Intellectual Property,…

SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT REACHED ON PROVISION OF TEXTBOOKS TO LEARNERS IN GRADES R, 1, 2, 3 AND 10 IN LIMPOPO PROVINCE

By cindy, 21 June 2012

Posted in: News, Right to Access Basic Education, Textbooks

Today representatives of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and SECTION27 met to try to resolve the ongoing challenge of availability of textbooks to learners in Limpopo and compliance with the court order of Judge Kollapen, which was delivered on 17 May 2012. The case was brought by SECTION27, Hanyani Thomo Secondary School and Mrs Lydia Masiphephethu. The parties agreed that all textbooks would be delivered to all schools by 27 June 2012 and that the DBE will develop a plan for extra tuition and support for learners and teachers to remedy the effects of the lack of textbooks for half of the academic year.

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