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Media Statements

Letter: Urgent Joint Portfolio Committee Meeting on Children’s Access to Food

To: The Honorable Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Social Development Mr Mondli Gungubele mgungubele@parliament.gov.za / tmarubelele@parliament.gov.za c/o Lindiwe Ntsabo (Committee Secretary) lntsabo@parliament.gov.za And to: The Honorable Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education Ms Bongiwe Pricilla Mbinqo-Gigaba rnourse@parliament.gov.za c/o Llewellyn Brown (Committee Secretary) lbrown@parliament.gov.za Dear Honorable Chairpersons RE: Continue Reading

By Section27, 7 years ago

Basic Education Budget Fact Sheet

S27 IEJ FUNDING BASIC EDUCATION FACT SHEET FINAL

By Section27, 7 years ago

Court papers

Media Statement: Department of Basic Education argument dismissed in Norms and Standards case

Johannesburg, 19 July 2018 – SECTION27 welcomes the judgment of Acting Judge Msizi in the case of Equal Education v Minister of Basic Education delivered in the Bhisho High Court this morning.

By Section27, 8 years11 months ago

Our week ahead 03 – 07 October 2016

Tuesday 4 October Executive Director, Mark Heywood will be deliver a talk to the pupils at St Peter’s School in the UK in which he will provide realistic insight into what life can be like for those who have been denied access to opportunities and as a result have fewer Continue Reading

By Section27, 10 years ago

Learners With Disabilities

Too many children left behind: Exclusion in the South African Inclusive Education System

Children with extremely severe intellectual disabilities must be properly accommodated in the education system, they cannot be disregarded as ineducable or too costly to educate. This is according to the South Africa’s Constitution and a 2011 judgment of the High Court and reiterated in a SECTION27 report” Too Many Left Continue Reading

By Section27, 10 years ago

News

Angie reads riot act

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga describes the country’s education system as a “national catastrophe” and a “crisis”. Motshekga read the riot act to her officials and teachers’ unions in a speech delivered during an education lekgotla this past week. This article originally appeared in the City Press on Sunday 24 January, 2016. Continue Reading

By Section27, 11 years ago

Educating children with disabilities

SECTION27 legal researcher, Tim Fish Hodgson delivered at presentation at the Disability Conference hosted by the Legal Resource Centre in Kwa-Zulu Natal from 12 – 13 November. Tim outlined some of the work SECTION27 has done in the Umkhanyakude District in Northern KZN. He spoke about the deficiencies in the Continue Reading

By Section27, 11 years ago

Registration of orientation and mobility practitioners

The term of the Occupational Therapy Board of the Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA) that was considering an application for registration made by the Orientation and Mobility Association of South Africa (“OMASA”) has ended. It is not clear if a new board has been reconstituted or whether the Continue Reading

By Section27, 11 years ago

SECTION27 welcomes Minister Motshekga's additional support to Limpopo

SECTION27 welcomes the decision by the Minister of Basic Education to send four senior managers to Limpopo to provide support in identified critical areas and thereby turn around the education crisis in the province.

By Section27, 13 years ago

Open letter on SECTION27’s priorities in 2013

Read a detailed account of SECTION27’s priorities in 2013!

By Section27, 14 years ago

DBE obliged to declare post establishment

On Friday 3 August, the Eastern Cape High Court in Grahamstown ruled that the Department of Basic Education (DBE) is obliged to declare post establishments for both teaching and non-teaching staff for 2013 for public schools in the Eastern Cape.

By Section27, 14 years ago

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

Yesterday SECTION27 received the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) progress report on the implementation of the catch-up plan (this and the catch-up plan are attached). While we are still studying and seeking expert input on the catch-up plan, we believe that it is inadequate and a clear violation of both the 17 May order of court and the settlement agreement between SECTION27 and the DBE which was made an order of court on 26 June.

By Section27, 14 years ago

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