PUBLISHED BY: Daily Maverick WRITTEN BY: Benni Mudau South Africa faces an urgent obligation under international law to address the impacts of climate change on the right to education. In early 2025, from 16 to 28 February, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) experienced devastating floods, prompting the National Disaster Management Centre to declare Continue Reading
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
SECTION27 SEEKING TO INTERVENE IN YET ANOTHER UNSAFE SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE CASE TO CALL FOR BETTER SECURITY AT SCHOOLS TO PREVENT DANGEROUS INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITIONS. Tuesday 19 October 2021 – SECTION27 is applying to be admitted as amicus curiae in a case about unsafe school infrastructure in Gauteng, concerning a tragic incident Continue Reading
SECTION27 joins case about unsafe school infrastructure Education authorities must be held accountable for learner safety and school infrastructure, says SECTION27. 28 October 2020, Johannesburg – SECTION27 was yesterday admitted as an amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the Local Division of the Johannesburg High Court in the Mahudu Continue Reading
Equal Education (EE), the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) and SECTION27, have made a joint submission to the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, highlighting cases of fraud and corruption in the delivery of education-related services. Our submission is concerned with the unseen but profound impact that State capture Continue Reading
Johannebsurg – 4 February 2019. The School Governing Body of Makangwane Secondary School has been vindicated in the judgment delivered by Judge Semenya of the Limpopo High Court on 1 February 2019. In the case of the School Governing Body of Makangwane Secondary School v the MEC of the Executive Continue Reading
Johannesburg, 18 January 2019 – We wish to express our deep concern and unease about a campaign launched by the Democractic Alliance (DA) this week and more specifically about a billboard which, among others refers to the Life Esidimeni and Michael Komape tragedies. On 16 January 2019, Mmusi Maimane launched the Continue Reading
Mr M Maimane Federal leader: Democratic Alliance Parliament Plein Street Cape Town By email: leader@da.org.za Ms L Watson 79 Hans van Rensburg Polokwane By email: plo@dalimpopo.co.za/ leannewatson@vodamail.co.za 17 March 2017, Dear Mr Maimane and Ms Watson The DA’s use of Michael Komape’s name 1. On Continue Reading
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
The application seeks to ensure that the learners of Makangwane School are taught in safe and adequate school facilities before 17 July 2018, which is when the third school term begins.
Children with extremely severe intellectual disabilities must be properly accommodated in the education system, they cannot be disregarded as ineducable or too costly to educate. This is according to the South Africa’s Constitution and a 2011 judgment of the High Court and reiterated in a SECTION27 report” Too Many Left Continue Reading
