Limpopo Sanitation Report
TOWARDS SAFE AND DECENT SCHOOL SANITATION IN LIMPOPO
Makangwane school: A fight for effective relief to historic injustice
If you read anything today read this article by SECTION27 Education intern Vuyisile Malinga on the fight for school infrastructure at the now former tree school of Makangwane Secondary #EndTreeSchools
VUWANI PROTEST: A THREAT TO LEARNERS’ RIGHT TO BASIC EDUCATION
Giyani, 4 September 2017 – Basic Education for All (BEFA) notes with concern the ongoing threat to the right to basic education of Vuwani learners as a result of the recurring protest action over demarcation issues. These protests have once again forced the shutdown of schools in and around the area.
Raking through Vuwani schools’ ashes
The Vuwani area resembles a ghost town, filled with scenes of textbook graveyards, charred walls and the remaining skeletons of furniture that once was. Basic Education for All (BEFA) and Section27 visited 22 out of 24 schools damaged or destroyed by fire in Vuwani, Limpopo at the beginning of May Continue Reading
Right to basic education, Vuwani
This article first appeared on The Daily Maverick All photos by SECTION27. If you had asked most South Africans a fortnight ago where Vuwani was, smart money would be on very few knowing. It is a testament to the heartbreaking chaos and destruction that has taken place there this month that Continue Reading
SECTION27 Welcomes Motshekga's comments
Statement: SECTION27 welcomes Minister Motshekga’s forthright comments 25 January 2016, Johannesburg – On 24 January 2016, the City Press reported that the Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga recognised the catastrophic state of basic education at an education lekgotla, and stated her intention to “start doing things differently”. SECTION27 welcomes Continue Reading
Textbook provision for SA learners
Textbook Provision for Learners in South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal Judgment in the BEFA Case This article first appeared on the Oxford Human Rights Hub. Faranaaz Veriava In December 2015, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (“SCA”) in the case of Minister of Basic Education and Others v Continue Reading
SCA rules that #TextbooksMatter
STATEMENT: The Supreme Court of Appeal rules that #TextbooksMatter
Johannesburg, 2 December 2015 – This morning (Tuesday 2 December 2015) a full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal delivered a beautiful, globally significant judgment.
#TextbooksMatter campaign launched
Johannesburg, 9 November 2015 Tackling the biggest problem South African education is facing to date – #textbooks matter aims to improve Basic Education for All (BEFA). Two weeks from today, a titanic battle for the future of South African children will finally come to its conclusion at the Bloemfontein Supreme Continue Reading
SCA to hear textbooks case
Supreme Court of Appeal to hear Limpopo textbooks case in November Johannesburg, 18 October 2015 – The appeal in the Limpopo textbooks case will be heard by the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Tuesday 24 November 2015. The Department of Basic Education is appealing the High Court’s order Continue Reading
Remembering Michael Komape
SECTION27 and Basic Education For All (BEFA) commemorated the first anniversary of the death of Michael Komape on Tuesday 20 January 2015. Michael, a Grade R pupil, drowned in a pit toilet at his school in Chebeng village, Limpopo in 2014. This unnecessary tragedy highlighted the need to improve school sanitation Continue Reading
SECTION27 brief media on sanitation and infrastructure crisis in Limpopo schools
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]SECTION27 held a press conference today, 30th of January about the sanitation and infrastructure crisis in Limpopo schools. The press conference highlighted the outcomes of the productive meeting with the Deputy Minister of Basic Education (DBE). SECTION27 and the DBE agreed to work constructively together wherever possible to tackle these Continue Reading