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Media Statements

Launch of the SAFE initiative: Proof will be in the pudding

The DBE’s approach to issues of school sanitation and infrastructure more broadly have been far more obstructive than the SAFE Initiative might suggest. The difficulties of unsafe school sanitation are not new. Together with community-based organisation Basic Education for All (BEFA), SECTION27 has consistently raised the challenges with the DBE as far back as 2012. In this time we have seen no real urgency or political will to mitigate this emergency. And we have seen the urgency of the situation intensify.

By Section27, 8 years ago

Court papers

Media Statement: Department of Basic Education argument dismissed in Norms and Standards case

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.

By Section27, 8 years9 months ago

Court papers

Komape family applies for leave to appeal court judgment

JOHANNESBURG, 17 May 2018 – SECTION27, representing Michael Komape’s family, has started proceedings to appeal the judgement handed down in the Limpopo High Court. The judgement rejected the civil claim by the Komape family for damages

By Section27, 8 years ago

Media Statements

Komape judgment fails to develop common law on constitutional damages

Polokwane: 23 April 2018 – Judge GC Muller has given the Limpopo Department of Education a reprieve with the judgment delivered in the case initiated by the Komape family against the Department of Basic Education and the Limpopo Department of Education (the defendants) following the death of Michael Komape at Continue Reading

By Section27, 8 years ago

Court papers

Komape Judgement – Media Statement

SECTION27 notes with mixed reaction the judgment handed down in the trial of the tragic death of Michael Komape by Judge Muller.While we welcome the structural interdict to provide adequate and safe sanitation for learners in the Limpopo

By Section27, 8 years ago

Michael Komape trial judgement 23 April 2018

Komape Judgement 23 April

By Section27, 8 years ago

Media Statements

#Justice4Michael

These postcards are part of the #Justice4Michael advocacy campaign. Thousands of learners in Gauteng, Pretoria and Cape Town wrote messages of support to the Komape family or a message for the MEC of Education in Limpopo, Ishmael Kgetjepe, sharing their thoughts and feelings on the untimely death of Michael Komape.

By Section27, 9 years ago

Media Statements

Do you Know Michael? A re-enactment of the day Michael died

On the 20 January 2014, Michael Komape stepped out of his Grade 1 classroom to use the outside pit toilet at Mahlodumela Primary School, near Polokwane, Limpopo. His body was later found in the pit after he fell

By Section27, 9 years1 year ago

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

By Section27, 10 years ago

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

By Section27, 10 years ago

LDoE: More money, same problems

This article was first published on GroundUp Limpopo education department: More money, same problems The department has a large budget, but still fails to deliver By Kate Paterson The Limpopo Department of Education (LDoE) has consistently been given extraordinary amounts of money and, time and time again, has failed to Continue Reading

By Section27, 10 years ago

News

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

By Section27, 11 years ago

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