PUBLISHED BY: News24/City Press WRITTEN BY: Zeenat Sujee & Tendai Mafuma When schools fail children, children fail. The scourge of gender-based violence has infiltrated all corners of our society and schools have not been spared. Schools are foundational not only to a child’s future, but to that of our nation. Continue Reading
Education officials in North West province ordered to investigate rape allegations surrounding learners and undertake appropriate disciplinary action against perpetrator
SECTION27 represents the Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children and the parents of two learners who were sexually assaulted while at school in an upcoming court hearing.
SECTION27 represents the Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children, an organisation that responds to incidents of sexual abuse against children and the parents of two children, one of whom was allegedly raped in 2015 while the other was sexually assaulted in 2017 by a caretaker at a public primary school Continue Reading
SECTION27 welcomes the decision by the Minister of Basic Education to send four senior managers to Limpopo to provide support in identified critical areas and thereby turn around the education crisis in the province.
24 May 2012
Lawyers against Abuse (LvA) and SECTION27 are horrified by the pervasive and endemic sexual violence perpetrated by staff against learners in South African schools. We are particularly concerned that we are seeing a systemic failure to protect and respect the victim and to punish the perpetrator in such cases. We call upon the justice system, the police, the Department of Education, the South African Council of Educators, trade union movements and teachers and management to whom this violence is reported in schools across the country to improve the response to this violence and to cease protecting teachers who commit acts of sexual violence against learners.
16 APRIL 2012 Protection to victims of domestic violence has been extended significantly by the granting of a protection order to a learner at a school in Gauteng against her teacher. Last week, a magistrate granted a final protection order to the learner who alleged that her teacher harassed, intimidated Continue Reading
