#TextbooksMatter campaign launched
Johannesburg, 9 November 2015 Tackling the biggest problem South African education is facing to date – #textbooks matter aims to improve Basic Education for All (BEFA). Two weeks from today, a titanic...
View ArticleSCA rules that #TextbooksMatter
STATEMENT: The Supreme Court of Appeal rules that #TextbooksMatter Johannesburg, 2 December 2015 – This morning (Tuesday 2 December 2015) a full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal delivered a...
View ArticleAngie reads riot act
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga describes the country’s education system as a “national catastrophe” and a “crisis”. Motshekga read the riot act to her officials and teachers’ unions in a...
View ArticleTextbook provision for SA learners
Textbook Provision for Learners in South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal Judgment in the BEFA Case This article first appeared on the Oxford Human Rights Hub. Faranaaz Veriava In December 2015, the...
View ArticleSECTION27 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...
View ArticleFixing schools not a choice
This article was first published on the Daily Maverick Op-Ed: A 5-point plan to fix the basic education crisis At the beginning of this year Section27 welcomed the characterisation of the system of...
View ArticleA LETTER BY THE WOMEN OF SECTION27
9 AUGUST 2016 – Women’s Day 2016 calls for reflection, for quiet reflection amid the noise of our healthy and boisterous democracy. This Women’s Day we need to pay tribute to those who walked ahead –...
View ArticleToo many children left behind: Exclusion in the South African Inclusive...
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...
View ArticleJoint media statement: Education activists make submission to Zondo...
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...
View ArticleSECTION27 and BLIND SA’s submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons...
SECTION27 and BLIND SA have raised concerns about the severe lack of reading material available to individuals who are blind and visually impaired in South Africa. This situation infringes upon their...
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