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Joint statement: As the rollout of school meals continues to improve, education departments must ensure that learners who are only back in classrooms on certain days, or learners who have permission to stay home, are still able to get food

8 September 2020 Joint statement: As the rollout of school meals continues to improve, education departments must ensure that learners who are only back in classrooms on certain days, or learners who have permission to stay home, are still able to get food With learners in all grades now back Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

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Joint statement: Some improvements NSNP reporting

19 August 2020 Joint statement: Some improvements in food distribution but latest National School Nutrition Programme report still lacks critical details and fails to fix obstacles to collecting meals and parcels SECTION27 and Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), representing Equal Education (EE) and the governing bodies of two Limpopo schools, Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

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Latest National School Nutrition Programme ‘Consolidated report’ from DBE and provincial education departments

Latest NSNP ‘consolidated report’ from Department of Basic Education and Provincial Education Departments On 7 August 2020, the Department of Basic Education and Provincial Education Departments submitted the latest court-ordered plan on the resumption of the National School Nutrition Programme to all 9 million eligible learners. You can read their Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

Media Statements

Joint media statement: Education MECs file school nutrition programme rollout plans that are full of holes, as we write to Minister Motshekga to fix hers

5 August 2020 Joint media statement: Education MECs file school nutrition programme rollout plans that are full of holes, as we write to Minister Motshekga to fix hers As part of the very important work of monitoring whether the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) is being properly rolled out, we Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

Media Statements

Joint statement: SECTION27, Equal Education Law Centre and Equal Education immensely distressed that Department of Basic Education has failed to fulfil its promises to enable schools to re-open safely.

1 June 2020 Joint statement: SECTION27, Equal Education Law Centre and Equal Education immensely distressed that Department of Basic Education has failed to fulfil its promises to enable schools to re-open safely SECTION27, the Equal Education Law Centre and Equal Education are profoundly concerned that the Department of Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

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Safety measures for schools during the COVID-19 pandemic

[UPDATE] Safety measures for schools during the COVID-19 pandemic 2 Sept 2020 – By 31 August, all grades of South African schools have returned to the classroom. In the context of COVID-19, a number of safety preconditions are necessary before schools can be reopened. The Department of Basic Education has Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

Health Systems Strengthening

MEDIA STATEMENT: Civil society organisations call for principled contracting with private sector in the COVID-19 health response, as well as more coordination and transparency

21 May 2020 CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR PRINCIPLED CONTRACTING WITH PRIVATE SECTOR IN THE COVID-19 HEALTH RESPONSE, AS WELL AS MORE COORDINATION AND TRANSPARENCY The undersigned civil society organisations welcome the measures put in place by government to combat the spread of COVID-19. The Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

Access to medicines

COVID-19 – CSO open letter to UNITAID, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States

COVID-19 – CSO open letter to UNITAID, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States 15 May, 2020 To: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director-General, World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland WHO Member States Marisol Touraine Chair, Unitaid Executive Board Dr Philippe Duneton Executive Director a.i, Unitaid Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

Media Statements

Access to lifesaving medical resources for African countries: COVID-19 testing and response, ethics, and politics.

Access to lifesaving medical resources for African countries: COVID-19 testing and response, ethics, and politics by: Matthew M Kavanagh, Ngozi A Erondu, Oyewale Tomori, Victor J Dzau, Emelda A Okiro, Allan Maleche, Ifeyinwa C Aniebo, Umunyana Rugege, Charles B Holmes, Lawrence O Gostin. Part of an interdisciplinary and international Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

Budget

Media Statement: Government’s COVID-19 economic response inadequate and punitive, says BJC.

05 May 2020 Government’s COVID-19 economic response inadequate and punitive, says BJC Access to sufficient food and relief from economic hardship are fundamental rights entrenched in the South African Constitution alongside the right to access healthcare services. And yet, notes the Budget Justice Coalition (BJC), the economic measures put in place Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

Media Statements

Letter to Minister for Health re: protecting safe access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services during COVID-19

Letter to Minister for Health re: protecting safe access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services during COVID-19 17 April 2020 Dear Minister Mkhize, RE: PROTECTING SAFE ACCESS TO SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES DURING COVID-19 South Africa began its national lockdown on 27 March 2020 to slow the spread Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

Media Statements

Open Letter to the President: Call to increase the CSG to protect children and families

Dear President Cyril Ramaphosa, Increase the CSG to protect families and the economy We, a group of concerned academics, civil society leaders and other development partners, appeal to you to consider our call for an urgent increase to the value of the Child Support Grant (CSG) by R500 for a Continue Reading

By Section27, 6 years ago

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