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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Textbooks Case
In April 2014, SECTION27, representing Basic Education for All (BEFA) made an application to the High Court in Pretoria to force the State to deliver outstanding textbooks to schools in…
#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,…
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…
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…