SECTION27 will intervene as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the case between Makhanda Circle of Unity and Others v Head of Department, Eastern Cape Department of Education and Others. The applicants, represented by the Legal Resources Centre, are challenging the Eastern Cape Department of Education’s (ECDoE) decision to cut funding at Continue Reading
As African states face growing pressure to respond to the climate crisis, SECTION27 has filed written submissions as amicus curiae (friend of the court) before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, on the climate change crises and the obligations of African State. The submissions are in response to Continue Reading
By: Benni Mudau The South African Constitution guarantees that every child has the right to access basic education. However, for siblings Lebogang* and Tebatso Ngcobo* – grade eight and ten learners respectively – from the New Horizon College, a private school in Harrismith in the Free State, this right was Continue Reading
Joint media statement: Civil society calls for key changes to BELA Bill, as Parliament considers the biggest amendments to basic education laws in the past decade 15 June 2022 — Today, Equal Education (EE), Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), SECTION27, Centre for Child Law (CCL), Children’s Institute (CI), and Legal Continue Reading
The Abidjan Principles In February 2019, a group of 57 international education rights experts adopted the Abidjan Principles. The Principles provide an official reference text outlining the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate the role of private actors in education. To commemorate the second Continue Reading
1 July 2020 Joint media alert: School nutrition court case to be heard tomorrow, to ensure that education departments honour string of promises to provide meals to all nine million learners Tomorrow, Thursday 2 July, the urgent case brought by Equal Education (EE) and two Limpopo schools to ensure that Continue Reading
12 June 2020 Joint statement: Education activists and schools take Department of Basic Education (DBE) and provincial education departments to court over backtracking on National School Nutrition Programme Equal Education (EE) and the school governing bodies (SGBs) of two Limpopo schools have today launched an urgent court application against the Continue Reading
Statement: The Budget Justice Coalition reaffirms the need for a rights-oriented budget 21 February 2019, Cape Town – The Budget Justice Coalition notes the irony of a budget handed down on World Day of Social Justice that slashes R50.3 billion from social expenditure over the next three years. While we Continue Reading
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release 18 October 2018 – Johannesburg United Nations Committee finds government austerity measures in health, education and other public services “may further worsen inequalities” and calls for policy to be reassessed Following its first review of South Africa, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and 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.
SECTION27 commends the Department of Basic Education (DBE) for taking the pro-active step to amend the basic education legal framework in line with the education jurisprudence as well as other developments to ensure greater access for all learners to a quality 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.
