Media Release: Basic Rights of blind and partially sighted people violated by Government Blind and partially sighted people’s basic human rights in accessing reading materials in accessible formats – braille, daisy and audio etc. is still being violated despite Democracy since 1994. The outdated Apartheid Copyright Act of 1978 which Continue Reading
The Abidjan Principles In February 2019, a group of 57 international education rights experts adopted the Abidjan Principles. The Principles provide an official reference text outlining the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate the role of private actors in education. To commemorate the second Continue Reading
Close to a year ago, the family of Michael Komape – a five-year-old learner, who fell into a pit toilet at Mahlodumela Primary School in Limpopo and drowned – won an important victory at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). The SCA stated, in a “stinging rebuke”, that “the failure Continue Reading
3 November 2020 Joint media statement: New Equaliser survey shows there are still problems with getting food to learners who are at home on some days, but DBE promises school meals to learners who are at home if there is a second wave of COVID-19 infections Equal Education (EE), Equal Continue Reading
29 October 2020 Joint MTBPS media statement: No new money for schools, but SAA’s rescue plan equals almost a year’s worth of school infrastructure funding Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), delivered yesterday, is devastating for many social services including basic education. The MTBPS says that government Continue Reading
SECTION27 joins case about unsafe school infrastructure Education authorities must be held accountable for learner safety and school infrastructure, says SECTION27. 28 October 2020, Johannesburg – SECTION27 was yesterday admitted as an amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the Local Division of the Johannesburg High Court in the Mahudu Continue Reading
Joint statement: Survey of Equalisers shows that most learners who are only in classrooms on certain days are not getting food for when they are at home DBE reports show that nearly two million learners are still not receiving school meals Equal Education (EE), Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) and Continue Reading
20 July 2020 Joint media statement: Education rights organisations and school communities to now monitor government’s compliance with the school meals court judgment “I am excited by this judgment but also sad that we had to resort to taking the Minister and the MECs to court for what they should Continue Reading
17 July 2020 Joint media advisory: Victory for Equal Education, Limpopo school governing bodies and over nine million learners as court rules that government’s National School Nutrition Programme must immediately resume for all learners! #SchoolMealsNow #9MillionMeals #FamiliesNeedNSNP Today, Acting Deputy Judge President of the North Gauteng High Court, Judge Continue Reading
25 June 2020 Joint statement on supplementary budget: Activists lament the lack of additional funding to Basic Education sector, concerned COVID-19 mitigation measures come at expense of long-term infrastructure needs Despite the education sector facing new challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, the supplementary budget, tabled by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Continue Reading
25 June 2020 Joint statement on supplementary budget: Activists lament the lack of additional funding to Basic Education sector, concerned COVID-19 mitigation measures come at expense of long-term infrastructure needs Despite the education sector facing new challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, the supplementary budget, tabled by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni Continue Reading
24 June 2020 Joint media statement: Education justice organisations successfully advocate for amended basic education directions for Covid-19 – significant wins as new Directions published Yesterday, Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga published amended Directions related to the reopening of schools and measures to manage Covid-19 in the basic Continue Reading