SECTION27, Blind SA and Daily Maverick will host a webinar on 22 November 2023 explaining how a Constitutional Court judgment, handed down in 2022, changes the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 and improves the way persons who are blind or visually impaired living in South Africa can access reading materials Continue Reading
05 May 2023, Johannesburg — SECTION27, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) and the Centre for Child Law (CCL) made a submission to the Department of Basic Education’s (“DBE”) Draft Guidelines for the Socio-Educational Inclusion of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) in schools. We welcome Continue Reading
17 March 2023, Johannesburg – SECTION27, in partnership with the Centre for Child Law, will launch an online tool, The Michael Komape Sanitation Progress Monitor, to track progress made by the Limpopo Department of Education (LDoE) to eliminate unsafe and undignified sanitation at public schools throughout the Limpopo province and Continue Reading
9 March 2023, Johannesburg – The Centre for Child Law (CCL) and SECTION27 condemn the devastatingly slow pace of the Department of Basic Education in eradicating pit latrine toilets in public schools. It has been almost 9 years since young Michael Komape and 5 years since Lumka Mthethwa died a 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
Funding for socio-economic rights slashed in the 2020 Budget SECTION27 is concerned that the Minister of Finance has cut spending in the crucial areas of education and health in order to bail out state-owned enterprises and reduce public borrowing. He announced that “education infrastructure allocations are adjusted by R5.2 billion Continue Reading
Kanya Cekeshe was sentenced to eight years in jail for public violence and malicious damage to property during the #FeesMustFall protests, three of which were suspended. He has served two years of that sentence. SECTION27 supported the #FreeKanyaCekeshe campaign because we believe that his actions must be understood in the Continue Reading
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
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
Democracy is about more than just voting. It’s about how we participate in our society, how we exercise our constitutional rights, including our right to protest and the freedom we have to express ourselves. It’s said by some that those who chose not to vote in elections lose their right Continue Reading
At a media briefing in Johannesburg civil society organisations came together in a show of unity to express their outrage at the unacceptable levels of corruption in our country, and its impact on the sector’s work in communities. The group highlighted the need to take decisive action through the Unite Against Continue Reading
The judgment of the Eastern Cape High Court, handed down on 3rd August 2012, is a groundbreaking vindication of the state’s duties to ensure children have a basic education.
SECTION27 salutes the Centre for Child Law, a number of School Governing Bodies from schools in the Eastern Cape and their legal team, the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), for this important victory for the rights of learners to learn and teachers to teach.
