GOVERNMENT MUST #FIXTHEFORGOTTENSCHOOLS, SAYS SECTION27 SECTION27 takes education authorities to court for suspending infrastructure projects at Limpopo schools during Covid-19. UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 9AM 3 October 2022 – SECTION27 has filed papers with the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Division, Pretoria) to ensure that the Department of Basic Education Continue Reading
5 YEARS LATER, GAUTENG SCHOOL STILL UNSAFE FOLLOWING THE ELECTROCUTION AND DEATH OF A LEARNER High Court to hear a case about unsafe school infrastructure 7 February 2022 3 February 2022, Johannesburg — Over five years since a matric learner tragically died at Geluksdal Secondary School in Gauteng after being Continue Reading
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.
Johannesburg, 1 April 2015 -SECTION27 supports Equal Education’s three days protests in three cities demanding the release of the Department of Basic Education’s provincial plans for the Norms and Standards for School Infrastructure We call on the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to make public the provincial plans in the next Continue Reading
We learners, parents, teachers, principals, government officials, members of social movements, civil society organisations, professional bodies and trade unions, ordinary citizens and community members have come together with one goal: to see the Minimum Uniform Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure (Norms & Standards), which are regulations brought into Continue Reading
SECTION27, the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), Equal Education (EE) and the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) are hosting a conference on the Implementation of the new Norms & Standards for School Infrastructure on Monday the 14th and Tuesday the 15th of July 2014 at the Wits Education Campus, Parktown, Johannesburg. The conference is a Continue Reading
This week SECTION27 made written submissions on two important National Department of Basic Education draft policy documents: Regulations Relating to Minimum Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure and its National Policy on HIV and TB. These submissions should be read together as these two policy documents inform each other and their successful Continue Reading
