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MTBPS 2023: Budgets must protect health care and education rights, now more than ever!
2 November 2023, Johannesburg – In the context of weak economic growth, lower-than-expected tax revenues collected and the implementation of measures to reduce public spending, the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) for 2023/24 has responded to this through budget cuts to health care and basic education, particularly to programmes characterised Continue Reading
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Celebrating 30 Years of Social Justice: SECTION27 turns 30
1 November 2023, Johannesburg – The year 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of SECTION27, incorporating the AIDS Law Project (ALP), established in 1993. Today, SECTION27 launches a month-long campaign to commemorate its 30 years of work for social justice and human rights. The AIDS Law Project was established to use Continue Reading
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SECTION27 welcomes amended policy ensuring access to free health care for all pregnant mothers and young children and partial compliance by Gauteng Health with High Court order
24 October 2023, Johannesburg – The Minister of Health, MEC and HoD for Gauteng Health and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital returned to Court on 23 October to report on compliance with the court order on free health care services for all pregnant and lactating women and young children. In Continue Reading
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SECTION27 argues for culpable homicide charges against Qedani Mahlangu, Makgabo Manamela and Ethel Ncube for Life Esidimeni deaths
23 October 2023, Johannesburg – The Life Esidimeni Inquest will resume on 26 October 2023, at the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria where SECTION27 will argue that the former Gauteng Health MEC, Qedani Mahlangu, the former Director of Mental Health Directorate, Dr Makgabo Manamela and the owner of Precious Angels Continue Reading
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Media Advisory – SECTION27 and Blind SA make oral submissions to UN committee on challenges faced by persons who are blind and visually impaired in South Africa
12 September 2023 – SECTION27 and Blind SA will make oral submissions before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“the Committee”) during its 18th Pre-Sessional Working Group on 12 September 2023. The oral submissions are based on SECTION27 and Blind SA’s joint, written submissionsdelivered to Continue Reading
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SECTION27 and Blind SA make oral submissions to UN committee on challenges faced by persons who are blind and visually impaired in South Africa
12 September 2023 – SECTION27 and Blind SA will make oral submissions before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“the Committee”) during its 18th Pre-Sessional Working Group on 12 September 2023. The oral submissions are based on SECTION27 and Blind SA’s joint, written submissionsdelivered to Continue Reading
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Ekurhuleni Municipality ordered to pay a R1 330 000 fine for failing to provide housing and land after 20 years
6 September 2023, Johannesburg – The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and SECTION27 welcome the judgment handed down by the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Division, Pretoria) in the matter of Thubakgale and Others v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and Others on 29 August 2023. The Court held that the Ekurhuleni Continue Reading
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Social justice organisations launch The Right to Read Campaign to address early-grade literacy
30 August 2023, Johannesburg – Today marks the launch of the Right to Read Campaign (R2R) at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg in response to the shocking early-grade literacy rates in South Africa. In May, the results of the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) revealed that 81% of Grade Continue Reading
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MEDIA ADVISORY: The Right to Read Campaign is launching to remedy the literacy crisis in schools
24 August 2023, Johannesburg – The Right to Read Campaign, made up of organisations that include the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Equal Education (EE), and SECTION27, invite you to their launch, on Wednesday, 30 August 2023. The 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Continue Reading
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SECTION27 Board appoints Sasha Stevenson as the new Executive Director
21 July 2023, Johannesburg – SECTION27 is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Sasha Stevenson as the next Executive Director. Sasha joined the organisation in 2012 as an attorney and was later promoted to Head of the Health Rights Programme, a position she held since 2018. Sasha assumed the Continue Reading
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MEDIA STATEMENT: Civil society organisations condemn Gauteng health facilities’ defiance of laws and recent court order on free access to health care for pregnant women
4 July 2023 – In April 2023, the Gauteng High Court upheld the right of all pregnant and lactating women, and children under 6, irrespective of nationality and documentation status, to access free health services at all public health establishments, including hospitals. This ruling followed an application brought by SECTION27 alongside women who Continue Reading
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10 years too late: Blind SA and SECTION27 march to urge the South African government to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty
27 June 2023, Johannesburg – Today, SECTION27, Blind SA and other activists and civil society organisations will march in Pretoria to urge the South African government to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled. The Treaty Continue Reading
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Blind SA and SECTION27 march to urge the South African government to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty
20 June 2023, Johannesburg – SECTION27 and Blind SA invite the media to a march on 27 June in Pretoria to urge the South African government to ratify the ‘Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled Persons’. The Treaty Continue Reading
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SECTION27 goes to the Supreme Court of Appeal calling for SACE’s lenient sanctions on corporal punishment to be reviewed
30 May 2023, Johannesburg – SECTION27 on behalf of the Centre for Child Law (CCL) and two parents are partially appealing a High Court’s judgment in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), following the actions of two violent teachers who meted out corporal punishment against two primary school learners in Continue Reading
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Court orders Gauteng Health to provide pregnancy termination services to a teenager following SECTION27 intervention
28 May 2023, Johannesburg — SECTION27 launched a successful urgent application on behalf of a pregnant minor who was denied access to termination of pregnancy (TOP) services at a primary public healthcare facility in Gauteng. The minor made multiple attempts to access these services, in accordance with her rights under Continue Reading
