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- Discussion | NGOs take WC govt to court over unplaced pupils
- BELA Bill unfairly criminalises parents – Equal Education Law Centre
- Teen Pregnancy | ‘Criminal, social and economic factors at play’: Daniel Peter Al-Naddaf
- ‘Oh, all the schools are full’ – The frustrating wait for a place in class is real
- How party manifestos tackle the plight of children and where activists say they fall short
- MTBPS | Early retirement plan causes a stir: Daniel Al-Naddaf shares more
- BELA Bill | Katherine Sutherland weighs in on the matter
- Western Cape fails to comply with court order to place all pupils
- Equal Education battle to admit unplaced learners in school continues with court matter
- Online School Admissions | Parents already anxious about 2025 intakes
- New report highlights the profound impact of climate change on children’s health and education
- Despite a court order, the WC Education Department is still failing some learners
- Equal Education and Law Centre head to court over unplaced learners in the Western Cape
- Equal Education demands immediate placement of a 1000 plus, learners in Gauteng and the Western Cape
- ‘Inclusion means actual inclusion’ — ending the marginalisation of young children with disabilities
- Discussion | Bela Bill concerns #eNCA
- Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill passes first legislative obstacle
- Education bodies concerned with certain provisions in Bela Bill
- ‘Firms in business with state must be made public’
- The Education Minister promised all schools would have a library by 29 November – but there’s no chance that deadline will be met
- Cost-cutting measures widely impacts poverty line
- Cosatu, Budget Justice Coalition oppose proposed Treasury austerity
- International Literacy Day 2023: 70% of schools still don’t have libraries on SA FM
- Standoff among educationists over collaboration schools
- There is a New School Law in South Africa | NC Breakfast | 20/07/2023
- Experts praise Cape’s new school partnerships
- Outcry over school ‘bathroom ban’
- Reading stats among learners are shocking
- Future uncertain for KZN scholar transport programme
- Two educators suspended for allegedly impregnating pupils
- ‘Alive, loud and proud’, Youth Day speakers invoke the spirit of ’76
- State of basic education in SA: Equal Education’s Tarryn Cooper-Bell
- Basic Education distances itself from fake circular on sexual orientation
- Two educators suspended for allegedly impregnating pupils
- National Youth Coalition hopes to encourage young people to participate in democratic processes
- Education Bill: Western Cape gets its chance to participate
- PIRLS (of wisdom): Get books in schools if you want to beat illiteracy, say Equal Education and unions
- Equal Education blames government for poor literacy findings
- Government let learners down, education organisations say
- Basic Education has no plans to develop religious policy – Angie Motshekga
- Eastern Cape principal accused of beating learners with a hose pipe
- ‘Failure to deliver food to KZN schools is a gross violation
- ‘Guarantee that this never occurs again’ – Equal Education on KZN school nutrition debacle
- Equal Education urges education department to fast-track probe into KZN school feeding scheme problems
- Bid to resolve crisis in KwaZulu-Natal special schools
- No need for a new deadline on pit toilets, Equal Education tells Limpopo government
- The events of Covid-19 behind anticipated WCED recovery programme launching in coming weeks
- Equal Education members protest outside Limpopo Department of Education over sanitation disaster
- Pregnant learners can only attend school if accompanied by a parent
- Sex pest vetting for schools agreed
- Teachers should be taught other tools for discipline as many still resort to corporal punishment
- Corporal punishment in SA’s schools
- ‘Education not getting attention and funding it deserves’
- Budget 2023: ‘Concern over rising inequality as high debt, energy crisis and corruption impact on public responsibilities’
- Equal Education condemns removing of migrant children at schools by Operation Dudula
- Operation Dudula threat to remove migrant children from schools sparks warning from activists
- Education NGOs condemn Operation Dudula’s ‘campaign to remove migrant children from schools’
- Intervention needed at school, says Section 27
- Back To School | Challenges faced by coastal school on day 1: Yolisa Piliso
- INSIDE EWN ROUNDTABLE: HAVE CONDITIONS FOR THE CLASS OF 2023 CHANGED?
- Load-shedding: powering malnutrition and obesity
- Basic Education Portfolio Committee Satisfied With Bela Bill Progress
- DBE preparing to blow up sex distinctions in schools – Wynand Boshoff
- Beyond special: Children with disabilities struggle to go to school
- Mitchells Plain parents angry over school fee debacle
- Umlazi deputy principal appointed despite dishing out corporal punishment
- Tiny Lebelo | Give rural schoolchildren the dignity of decent toilets
- EQUAL EDUCATION CONCERNED SCHOOLS PUNISH LEARNERS FOR OUTSTANDING FEES
- There has been a trend of schools denying matriculants access to their matric dance because of outstanding school fee payments.
- Cosatu, AfriForum to make oral submissions on Basic Education Amendment Bill
- Mother tongue education amendment bill sparks a mother-and-father of an argument
- Contractor procurement is achilles heel of school infrastructure delivery
- Proposed language policy for schools is ‘unconstitutional’, parliament told
- Clash over new laws for schools in South Africa – including language changes and the sale of alcohol
- Equal Education and Sadtu take WCED to court over new types of schools
- Equal Education drags Western Cape premier, MEC to court
- Civil society calls for key changes on the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill
- Despite corporal punishment being outlawed many years ago, the Western Cape still sees several cases annually.
- Who’s Responsible For School Infrastructure In South Africa?
- ‘Crumbling’ education landscape prompts ‘Basic Education Rights Handbook’ update
- OPINION | The politics of food: Fighting for pupils’ right to eat
- Cape primary school principal’s “boss-like” attitude slam
- Right to education remains a pipe dream for rural pupils
- Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill likely to make home schooling more difficult
- Preserving the rule of law in times of political crisis
- BELA bill is a step in the right direction for equal quality education but more to be done
- Schools bill is no betrayal, it’s a belated move to update the law
- Unplaced learners ‘still out in the cold’
- Education Department to consult stakeholders on changes to school infrastructure law
- ‘DBE sets back infrastructure upgrades at schools’
- Equal Education and EELC resolute in fight against changes to school infrastructure law
- EE and EELC unwavering on proposed amendments to School Infrastructure Law
- Majority Of SA Schools Are Underperforming, Says Organisation
- “80% of schools attended by black and coloured students are dysfunctional ” says a report
- Proposed solutions to help dysfunctional and underperforming schools particularly in rural areas improve
- Proposed changes to fix South Africa’s ‘dysfunctional’ schools
- 80% of schools are dysfunctional, serve mostly black and coloured pupils, says report
- Proposed changes to solve South Africa’s ‘dysfunctional’ schools
- Equal Education accuses DBE of dodging accountability on school infrastructure
- Learners picket in Pretoria over govt scrapping deadlines to fix schools
- Deadline extended for public to comment on controversial education regulations
- Learners protest education department proposal to end deadlines to fix schools
- Education lobby groups gear up for battle over school infrastructure
- Teachers need to control their classes without using corporal punishment
- Judge sets deadline for Western Cape Education Department to find schools for seven learners
- Education dept told court that pupils would be in school this week. It didn’t happen
- Equal Education learns of 30 more unplaced learners as case against the WCED looms
- Children can’t get into Cape Town schools, court hears
- Teen losing hope of finding a place in high school
- WC School Placements | Equal Education Law Centre institute litigation over unplaced pupils
- WCED served with court papers over seven learners who have not been placed
- Schools breaking own rules on student disciplinary procedures – Equal Education
- Inclusive education: Girls and boys must be treated equally
- More than 1,600 schools in SA still use pit latrines – 300 are in Limpopo
- School-to-prison pathways raise a red flag
- School children Call for Safer School Transport
- “Bullied” into silence over use of corporal punishment at school, says parent
- Long-awaited policy on pregnant learners promises a new dawn
- Crèches demand unpaid Covid relief funds
- LGBTQI+ organisation advocates for boys to wear skirts at school
- School uniforms | Call for flexible dress codes
- Equal Education and EE Law Centre welcome full-time return to classrooms
- Drop rotational school attendance now! – open letter to Basic Education Minister
- Over 32,000 late school applications, says Western Cape Education Department…And more coming
- Back to School – Hundreds still not placed
- Back to School | Race to place pupils
- Equal Education Law Centre backs decision to block media from publishing individual’s matric results
- Decision to not publish matric results a mental health victory: Equal Education
- ‘The forgotten sector’: ECD teachers excluded from vaccine rollout
- Education bodies give Angie Motshekga a thumbs-up in the fight against Covid-19
- EELC on CapeTalk: The right to basic education of undocumented learners
- Over 40s in education sector 1st up as SA public schools start vaccinating staff
- Parents concerned about admission policies of Western Cape Education Department
- Sars wants to limit disability education costs to ‘curb abuse’
- ‘Prioritise us for vaccination’, say teacher unions
- DBE releases its 2022 school year calendar
- Basic Education Dept: Primary schools to return to daily attendance
- Schools urged to provide food parcels for pupils missing out on meals at home
- Mud school has one broken toilet for 175 learners and staff
- Pupil in tears as he details how he was lowered into pit-toilet to dig for Principal’s phone
- Equal Education demands audit of school feeding programmes in Limpopo
- Pit latrines in the spotlight after school child forced to retrieve cellphone
- WCED in race to find schools for thousands of Cape pupils who are still unplaced
- EELC calls on parents to report schools demanding registration fees to education district office
- Equal Education Law Center receiving requests for help as parents struggle with placements
- Motshekga’s rape statements ‘classist’ and ‘anti-black
- Primary education admissions – Over 16 000 learners yet to be placed in schools
- Parents face admissions battles at schools, blame discriminatory placement processes
- Interrogating the responsibilities of education authorities to ensure schools are safe
- Covid-19 has devastated early childhood development programmes, but we’re slowly clawing our way back
- Equal Education survey shows more pupils go hungry when not in school
- Study finds that most school pupils suffered massive loss of learning days, access to learning materials skewed
- This is the school drop out rate in South Africa
- Nearly two million learners are still missing out on meals due to rotating timetables
- Breaching the digital divide: Textbooks are essential if learners hope to pass
- Copyright Act ‘discriminatory and ‘exclusionary’ and reform is urgent, say civil society organisations
- Online and in the classroom, COVID-19 has put new demands on teachers
- We honour the teachers who saw the potential in us
- The collapse of early childhood development is a constitutional crisis – urgent action is needed now
- A testing time for schooling
- A lack of psychosocial support has left SA schoolchildren facing a heavy burden
- Of epidemics, expediency and inequality – time to do the right thing
- Time the state drilled down into water scarcity at schools
- Plans for school year will cause problems later, say experts
- 16,000 Eastern Cape classrooms ‘lying dormant’
- Provinces are not liable for child injuries in ECD centres, Supreme Court of Appeal rules
- White elephant schools reveal lack of progress
- Government must give a helping hand to learners who drop out
- Who can perform at their best when they are using mud classrooms? asks Eastern Cape parent
- Learners with Disabilities continue to face exclusion from COVID-19 Policy
- Food sovereignty: The only solution to the hunger crisis
- Equal Education and partners vow to ensure pupils access school feeding scheme
- Some Eastern Cape learners are not getting their full school meals
- Over five million children not getting their school meals
- Special needs pupils return to classrooms without desks and windows
- EELC on 702 Radio: Guidelines for the safety of disabled learners
- Victory for pupils with disabilities
- Visually impaired community faces education crisis and abuse by law enforcement
- Poor quality food being given to learners, say activists
- Minister’s plan to feed school children following court ruling lacks detail
- Education spending is falling. The Covid-19 budget has slashed it further
- The unsung heroes and heroines of the National School Nutrition Programme victory
- Widening inequality gap in SA schooling a further casualty of Covid-19
- “Children will not go hungry anymore”
- Kids suffer months of ‘agony’ after school meals cut off
- In-depth: The long shadow of child malnutrition in South Africa
- Doctor warns malnutrition caused by school meals gap could create ‘dysfunctional generation’
- Cuts to basic education budget ‘disheartening’, say NGOs
- Call to safeguard special needs pupils
- Govt’s compliance with school meals court judgment to be monitored – EE & Co.
- Equal Education, two School Governing Bodies and Judge Potterill save children’s lives
- ‘NSNP feeding scheme must immediately resume’ – High Court
- School feeding court case: The justice of eating and the obscenity of hunger
- High Court grants declaratory order to resume feeding scheme for eligible school learners
- Court finds that government failed to feed children
- Court orders education department to resume feeding 9 million pupils without delay
- Court orders the department of basic education to urgently feed 9 million hungry children
- UN’s Alston Report ‘lays bare South Africa’s cruel economic policy choices’
- EE: WHATEVER THE DECISION ON SCHOOLS, THERE’LL BE CONSEQUENCES FOR PUPILS
- Confusion and fear mark return to school
- New LGBTQI+ draft guidelines for schools critically flawed say education activists
- No pulse, no heartbeat: Why bringing more grades back to school just won’t work
- Equal Education accuses Department of Basic Education of ‘administrative chaos’ over schoolchildren feeding programme
- The right to education and the right to nutrition are interdependent and should not be separated,
- Decision to stop school nutrition violates pupils’ rights to a meal
- Equal Education seeks order forcing govt to ensure all qualifying pupils are fed through scheme
- DBE accused of dragging its feet while millions of children starve
- Education ministers “ducking accountability” argues Equal Education
- Resuming the national school nutrition programme is a vital test for children’s socio-economic rights
- A few “hiccups” but school feeding on track, education department insists
- Who’s right? Court battle over children’s rights to education and basic nutrition
- Advocacy group takes department to court over school nutrition programme
- Activists unhappy with cut to Basic Education’s budget
- EELC on 702, A spotlight discussion on Basic Education during COVID19 & the importance of DBE’s amended directives for phased schools re-opening
- Motshekga firm on July 6 return for the rest of schoolgoing pupils
- Angie Motshekga boasts of 98% attendance rate in schools as Covid-19 cases climb
- Teachers want schools closed until Covid-19 “peak” has passed
- Success as new directions published
- School feeding schemes to restart in the Eastern Cape
- Eastern Cape learners to be fed again
- ConCourt ruling hailed over pupils’ rights when private schools cancel contracts
- Eastern Cape mud school “falling apart” say parents
- Constitutional Court defends rights of children at private schools
- Private schools must give fair hearings before kicking children out, rules Concourt
- Hunger, remote learning and school readiness: Civil society ensures the right to learn amid the pandemic
- EELC on 702 – Con Court hands down judgment in case on obligations and duties of independent schools
- EELC on 702 with Joanne Joseph – Court bid to reinstate School Feeding Programme
- National School Nutrition Programme – Compelling Statements ( A spotlight on Basic Nutrition )
- DBE has failed to restore school feeding schemes – EE & SGBs
- Basic Education Department taken to court over feeding eligible school children in all grades
- Lobby groups to go to court to reinstate school feeding scheme
- Motshekga taken to court as pupils struggle
- Courts asked to compel government to feed learners
- Protective equipment for schools in KZN goes ‘missing’ – Mail & Guardian
- #DearJudgeZondo -Open letter to Judge Zondo: Please resume Commission hearings – GroundUp
- #COVID19 – Parents Protest Against School Opening – GroundUp
- EELC on Radio 2000 – Response to Minister’s DBE Briefing 01/06/2020
- EELC on CapeTalk: Legal Discussion: Parents Q &A #COVID19
- EELC on SABC Morning Live: The Readiness of schools for special needs learners – #COVID19
- Draft KZN Pupil Transport Policy out for comment
- BASIC EDUCATION MINISTER URGED TO PROVIDE CLARITY ON PLAN TO REOPEN SCHOOLS
- South African Children Face Hunger as School Closure Halts Free Meals
- Plea for ‘clear, comprehensive plans’ on reopening of schools
- Education rights groups demand clarity, details from Motshekga about reopening of schools
- Civil society groups pressure Angie Motshekga to restore feeding scheme during lockdown
- Motshekga under pressure to feed kids in lockdown
- Covid-19: Open Letter to Minister Angie Motshekga
- [Podcast] Call for school feeding schemes to continue under Covid-19
- Minister urged to restore school feeding schemes during lockdown
- [Podcast] SAFM: DBE called on to continue school feeding schemes
- Civil society at work during Covid-19
- SA’s undocumented children have a right to free education
- Withholding reports is unlawful
- Civil Society Organisations Challenge DBE Inclusive Education Update
- Spatial justice and education justice: Court hears about daily grind of pupils travelling long distances for a better education
- Spatial justice and education justice: Province defends its actions in Tafelberg Sale
- Scholar transport – KZN Education Department agrees in court to publish scholar transport policy
- Scholar transport – An end in sight for KwaZulu-Natal learners long walk
- School sanitation – The law and the horror of the death of Michael Komape
- State Capture and Education – Education activists want state capture commission to probe school tenders
- State Capture and Education – Education activists make submissions to state capture commission
- State Capture and Education – The struggle to uncaptured the classroom
- State of Education report – Basic Education Department on track but glaring gaps remain
- The battle for the right to education goes to Parliament
- [Listen] State of Education in South Africa
- [Listen] EELC briefs portfolio committee on state of education
- Parliament briefing
- Sports facilities at schools
- EELC admitted as friend of the court in day care centre matter
- Community success: construction due to begin on pedestrian bridge
- A bleak picture painted of education in past five years
- Disabled kids “fall through the cracks” due to inadequate Act
- [Listen] EELC explains how the state is failing to fix schools and must #StopTheAppeal in the #FixTheNorms case
- [Listen] EELC debates Department of Education on the Appeal in #FixTheNorms case
- #FixTheNorms – School Infrastructure Court Victory
- [Watch] School Buses for Some Nquthu Pupils
- Equal Education celebrates delivery of buses
- (Radio discussion) How many more generations of learners will suffer, or die, to get an education?
- Equal Education wants the Basic Education Department to fix flaws in its regulations
- Equal Education in court against Motshekga over broken schools
- The EELC featured in the Business Day – #CelebratingAdvocacy
- “I had to repeat grade ten because of Metrorail”- Learners in Cape Town schools badly affected by collapsing train service
- School pleaded for bridge over N2 — now a child has been knocked over
- Single parents will pay lower school fees after SCA judgement
- Landmark court decision will see single parents pay less for school fees
- SCA ruling: Single parents don’t need partners’ consent for fees exemptions
- School transport to be provided in KZN
- Radio Discussion: EELC on Maritzburg College
- TV Discussion: EELC discusses KZN school placing of learner in solitary over unpaid fees
- Radio Discussion: WC Education Dept responds to allegations on non-compliance over Grootkraal
- Grootkraal: Rights Group to continue fight in Oudtshoorn eviction case
- Grootkraal: Judge slams education bosses for ignoring court order
- Grootkraal: Judge reprimands MEC for haphazard school eviction
- Application to evict Grookraal Primary School postponed
- Police defend controversial protest law in court
- Protest law under scrutiny in court
- Social Justice Coalition to challenge the criminalisation of protest action
- Northcliff High Concession Cards Likened to Apartheid Dompas
- Grootkraal: Land, Expropriation, Education – No respect for learners in farm schools
- South African Council of Educators – Tougher action on teachers that hurt learners
- Grootkraal: Judge to visit Grootkraal school before reaching verdict
- Grootkraal: Judge accuses education MEC for disrespecting learner’s rights
- Grootkraal: Court asked to tell government to expropriate land for school
- Grootkraal: Equal Education goes to court to save school from eviction
- Radio discussion: the right to education
- Human rights lawyers issue directive to schools about undocumented children
- State fails learners and communities in missing deadline on school infrastructure
- Motshekga faces court battle
- Win for Single Parents
- Fee Relief for Single Parents
- Court Ruling to Alter Face of South Africa Schooling
- Pupils Denied Quality Education
- Mom Sues Over School Fee Policy
- Supporting My Child’s Right to a Basic Education
- School Closures – Learners’ Interests and Due Process Critical
- Equal Education on University Fee Protests
- Law Focus – Bogus Colleges & Free Education
- Equal Education Radio Podcast Episode 1: Parent Activism
- Schools Turn Away Failed Matrics
- Rasta Learner Misses School Over Dreads
- SIU probe into EC Education limited to one Tender
- Dunoon Parents start their own School
- Pupil transport: How far would you walk to get an education?
- Get Up, Stand Up, Fight like Lerato
Articles and Papers by the EELC
Articles by the EELC
- South Africa’s children are excluded from democratic participation
- Legacy of apartheid still haunts pupils fighting for a decent education in South Africa, 30 years later
- OPINION | SA’s mounting education crisis: How budget cuts are breaking down years of hard work
- VOICES | New government must prioritise early childhood development, disability funding
- Learners don’t have vote, but have a powerful voice — ‘prioritise education and ECD’
- SA’s new white paper on migration doesn’t quite hold up against international human rights
- Elections 2024: A party for the children is a party for the future
- Groundswell of opposition needed to end corporal punishment in schools
- Take off the blinkers, COP28 — schools are in the fierce eye of the climate storm
- Encroaching on the rights of parents, learners
- Early childhood development programmes should be part of free basic education
- This is what we can do to end the reading crisis
- Yolisa Piliso | Decriminalise the use of dagga among kids
- It’s always better said in your Mother Tongue
- No school fees? Then no matric dance!
- Learners with disabilities must get a place in school
- Gertrude Quan | The state of South African children
- Education department’s proposed watering down of infrastructure law is bad news for schools
- Education Bill could hamper access to schools for more than half a million vulnerable children
- Corporal punishment ban in SA schools, more than two decades later: More needs to be done
- School meals victory: A moment to be celebrated
- Criminalising parents over children’s absenteeism is harsh and ineffective
- City Press | Underperforming or unfairly stigmatised? Why support for struggling schools requires a rethink
- OPINION | Judgment securing undocumented pupils’ rights to education has been eroded
- How changes in school infrastructure grant will put safety of pupils on the line
- Parents desperate to educate their kids
- Disciplinary hearings: some schools are flouting the rules
- Rigid attitude of schools puts pupils on the path to prison – but it’s against the law
- Red tape trips up children’s development
- Unattainable and untenable: Hearings expose problems in the early childhood development sector
- The Un-masking of South Africa’s Education System
- Plea for extension: Most workers in early childhood development will not benefit from government relief fund
- A Victory A Little Too Late for Learners With Disabilities – International Day of Person with Disabilities
- Early Childhood Development reform misses the mark
- Section 100: A Constitutional Amendment we really need for better service delivery
- Schools reopen: Learners with disabilities left behind again
- Standing up for inclusion: the right of undocumented children to an equitable and inclusive education system
- Court’s intervention shows dire need for reform in the Early Childhood Development sector
- Why we are going to court to force government to provide school meals
- Government plans for Early childhood development are needed urgently
- Parliamentary oversight resumes, but challenges remain
- Looking Ahead: School Admissions Processes And Placement Must Be Improved
- Covid-19 highlights importance of adequate school infrastructure and sanitation
- Learning in the time of Covid-19: Equitable support during school closures desperately needed
- Back to School – Is now the right time?
- School children, know your rights
- Let no child go uncounted: Poor data collection endangers education planning
- Angie Motshekga must be accountable for the school’s crisis
- Navigating the Rights and Responsibilities of private actors in Education
- Victory for Children’s Rights
- Children have the right to protest: South African legal activists make submissions to United Nations
- Changes to dealing with sexual misconduct in schools welcome, but implementation is key
- Race and Language: ConCourt misses chance to guide transformation of the education system
- New tenure reform legislation must be enacted
- School fees – More accountability is needed
- Education law reforms must be debated
- Undocumented children – Rights of foreign kids trampled on
- Private schools flirt with constitutional delinquency
- EELC’s law clinic: fighting for justice in education
- No birth certificate, no school
- Too many learners; not enough schools.
- When learning is both difficult and dangerous
- Allergies in Schools
- Making sure all our schools have enough teachers : towards equality in school funding
- Education that caters for disabled learners is attainable
- Condoms in schools: it’s a human right
- Towards equality in school funding School funding: what the Constitution demands
- Refugees Have an Equal Right to Schooling
- Minister Motshekga’s Ugly Lesson for Learners
- There’s no Dignity in Education without proper Sanitation
- School students with allergies can’t always count on help
- Government needs to consult properly before closing schools
- Time to Get Tough with Schools which Discriminate against Pregnant Schoolgirls
- Corruption in Schools is stealing our Children’s Future
- Dunoon Schools: When Lawyers go beyond the Courtroom
- Long Walk to Education: The Struggles of Rural Students
- Current Struggles of Historic School that Biko attended
- Equal Education is a Basic Right
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Media
- Joint statement: Civil society calls on new Minister of Basic Education to fix the School Infrastructure Regulations to ensure children’s safety in public schools
- Statement: The Equal Education Law Centre is cautiously optimistic as the Department of Basic Education welcomes Siviwe Gwarube as Minister of Basic Education
- Joint media statement: Victory for all out-of-school learners in the Metro East Education District as the Western Cape High Court orders the Western Cape Education Department to place learners within 10 days
- Joint Statement: SECTION27, EE, EELC and LRC call on Parliament to protect the best interests of learners and reinstate clauses in the BELA Bill designed to ensure that school language and admissions policies are equitable.
- Release of Equal Education Law Centres report on its admission Imbizo which sheds light on challenges contributing to learners without a school place
- Setback for children’s rights as early childhood development subsidy remains pegged at R17 for sixth year in a row
- Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre joint statement: Government’s austerity agenda puts children’s right to schooling in jeopardy
- Media Statement: In anticipation of the announcement of the 2024/24 Budget on 21 February, EELC calls on the Minister of Finance to keep South Africa’s promise and ringfence the children’s budget
- Joint media statement: Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre urgently call on government to address problems in the BELA Bill and its swift finalisation
- Equal Education Law Centre Media Statement
- Equal Education Law Centre Press Release
- Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre joint statement
- Joint media statement: Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre welcome improvements to the BELA Bill but remain concerned about the criminalisation of parents and caregivers
- Procurement Reform Working Group (PRWG) statement: Civil society organisations call for major improvements to the Public Procurement Bill
- Joint statement: Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre disappointed by the outcome of the Western Cape Provincial Schools Education Amendment Act (collaboration schools) matter in the Western Cape High Court
- Equal Education and Equal Education joint statement: The 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results confirm a schooling system in crisis and the extent of learning losses created by COVID-19
- Joint statement: Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre call for urgent intervention to resolve the collapse of the National School Nutrition Programme in KwaZulu-Natal and restore learners’ access to food at school
- Joint statement: Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre welcome National Treasury’s three year extension of the School Infrastructure Backlogs Grant to help tackle overcrowding in our schools
- Joint statement: Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre strongly condemn Operation Dudula’s campaign to remove young migrant children from schools
- Collective Voices against Health Xenophobia strongly condemns Operation Dudula’s attack on patients at the Jeppe Clinic
- JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT: EQUAL EDUCATION AND EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE IN COURT TODAY TO CHALLENGE THE INTRODUCTION OF COLLABORATION SCHOOLS, DONOR-FUNDED SCHOOLS, AND INTERVENTION FACILITIES BY THE WESTERN CAPE PROVINCIAL SCHOOL EDUCATION AMENDMENT ACT
- Medium Term Budget continues with expenditure cuts that will further increase inequality
- Joint Media Advisory: Public Interest Law Centres in court as amici curiae to defend public interest litigation
- South Africa: Constitutional Court’s invalidation of copyright law an important step in ensuring the rights of persons with print disabilities and visual impairments
- Statement in Support of SAITF and SERI SA against Hate Speech and Threats
- Media statement: EE and EELC make a written submission on the DBE’s proposed changes to the school infrastructure law, urging it not to scrap the urgency and accountability needed for fixing our schools!
- Do we truly live in a “never-again” society? A report on improving the quality in learning outcomes
- EE and EELC joint statement: Minister Motshekga’s proposed new changes to the school infrastructure law will see schools falling apart for many more years, seriously undermining the right to basic education
- 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
- Children’s Institute, represented by Equal Education Law Centre go back to Court to re-enforce the protection of children in schools
- WCED ordered to assist all 2022 unplaced learners in the Metro East Education District
- Legal action against the Western Cape Education Department follows numerous failed attempts to engage on the placement of learners in the Metro East District
- Advocating for equal rights. South Africa’s copyright law needs to enhance accessibility of reading materials to blind and visually impaired people
- Children’s Institute, represented by Equal Education Law Centre, is applying to enter as amicus in a matter concerning the lenient sanctions applied to educators who use corporal punishment
- LAUNCH OF THE EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE’S REPORT “LET IN OR LEFT OUT?” A TWENTY-YEAR REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
- EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE AND CENTRE FOR CHILD LAW WELCOME THE SARS DECISION TO ALLOW TAX REBATES THAT ADVANCE THE RIGHT TO BASIC EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
- Joint media statement: A victory for the rights of learners, as Polokwane High Court orders government to develop better plans to get rid of pit toilets in Limpopo schools
- Joint media statement: A victory for KwaZulu-Natal learners as the KwaZulu-Natal Learner Transport Policy is finalised! #LongWalkToSchool
- Equal Education Law Centre and International Commission of Jurists advocate to ensure that South Africa’s copyright law allows for enhanced accessibility of reading material to persons with disabilities
- Joint media statement: Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre demand a better plan to get rid of pit latrines in Limpopo schools, as we return to court in support of the Komape case
- Joint media statement: Crucial questions for Basic Education Minister Motshekga on the reopening of our schools
- Joint media statement: Hope in the fight against child hunger, as court orders government to rethink its plans to ensure that all learners get school meals during the COVID-19 pandemic!
- Joint media statement: Government must acknowledge its role in creating South Africa’s social crisis and must urgently provide social relief, including bringing back and increasing the COVID-19 relief grant
- Joint media statement: Education activists and school governing bodies return to court to fight for school meals for learners that education departments have left behind during COVID-19
- Joint media statement: Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre welcome the DBE’s case-by-case approach to managing COVID-19 infections in schools and celebrate the announcement of vaccinations for all school staff
- EELC statement: Update on the fact-finding process by the Equal Education Law Centre into the tragic drowning of Avethandwa Nokhangela
- Joint media statement: Western Cape Education MEC Schäfer must fulfil her responsibility to develop long term solutions to the yearly school admissions crisis, instead of making false claims about Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre being unwilling to help
- Joint media statement: EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS ARE SLACKING ON THE COURT-ORDERED REPORTING ON THE NATIONAL SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMME, WHILE 1.5 MILLION LEARNERS ARE STILL NOT RECEIVING MEALS
- EELC Media statement: Forest Village learners remain unplaced, despite MEC claiming that half of the learners are in school
- Joint media statement: Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre have made a submission on the draft school admissions policy, urging Department of Basic Education to carefully reconsider some of the shortcomings that will have a negative impact on the right to education
- Joint media statement: Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre call for investigations around a learner being forced into a pit latrine to be carefully, quickly and sensitively handled – and demand government move faster to eradicate plain pit latrines at 1 243 Eastern Cape schools
- Joint media statement: Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga should properly apologise for, and withdraw, her harmful remarks about rape
- Education is a right not a Privilege: In Solidarity with EE’s Open Letter to the President, Minister of Basic Education, Minister of Finance, Minister of Health & Minister of Cooperative Governance
- Joint media statement: Minister Motshekga, don’t let child hunger continue! Honour the spirit of the court judgment and provide meals to learners from today!
- Joint EE and EE Law Centre media statement: Umalusi and the Department of Basic Education have not convinced school communities that a national rewrite of the leaked maths and physical sciences exam papers is the only way to protect the integrity of the matric exams
- Joint EE and EE Law Centre media statement: Parliament commits to making final decision on changing the Constitution to better protect learners’ rights, before the end of this year
- Joint media statement: Equaliser surveys continue to show that there are still problems with getting food to learners who are at home on some days, but DBE promises school meals to learners who are at home if there is a second wave of COVID-19 infections
- Joint media statement: Draft Western Cape guidelines on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools still have dangerous basic flaws
- Joint media statement: Survey of Equalisers shows that most learners who are only in classrooms on certain days are not getting food for when they are at home, as DBE reports show that nearly two million learners are still not receiving school meals
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- Joint Statement: As the rollout of school meals continues to improve, education departments must ensure that learners who are only back in classrooms on certain days, or learners who have permission to stay home, are still able to get food
- Joint statement: Some improvements in food distribution but latest National School Nutrition report still lacks critical details and fails to fix obstacles to collecting of meals and parcels
- Joint media statement: Education MECs file school nutrition programme rollout plans that are full of holes, as we write to Minister Motshekga to fix hers
- Joint Statement: Court application finally responds to the needs of learners with disabilities during COVID-19 pandemic
- Joint Statement: Education rights organisations and school communities to now monitor government’s compliance with the school meals court judgment
- Joint Statement: Centre for Child Law takes Minister of Basic Education to court to protect the rights of learners with disabilities during COVID-19 – #SafeSpecialSchools
- Joint media advisory: Victory for Equal Education, Limpopo school governing bodies and over nine million learners as court rules that government’s National School Nutrition Programme must immediately resume for all learners!
- 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
- Statement: Civil Society victory as DBE amendments to the Directions for the first time provides for learners with disabilities
- Joint media statement: School meals court case to be heard this Thursday 2 July, as education departments shamefully fail to honour latest promise
- Joint statement on supplementary budget: Activists lament the lack of additional funding to Basic Education sector, concerned COVID-19 mitigation measures come at expense of long-term infrastructure needs
- Joint media statement: Education justice organisations successfully advocate for amended basic education directions for Covid-19 – significant wins as new Directions published
- Media statement: Constitutional Court says independent schools are not immune from Constitutional obligations
- Media Alert: Tomorrow the Constitutional Court will hand down judgment in case on obligations and duties of independent schools, in which Equal Education is amicus curiae
- 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
- Joint statement: EELC, EE & Section27 demand reinstatement of nutrition for all learners, will consider litigation
- Joint statement: SECTION27, Equal Education Law Centre and Equal Education immensely distressed that the Department of Basic Education has failed to fulfil its promises to enable schools to re-open safely
- Joint Media Statement: The Department of Basic Education commits to ensuring the National School Nutrition Programme reaches all learner beneficiaries from 1 June 2020
- Joint Statement #COVID19 – The Department of Basic Education must present clear and comprehensive plans to the public
- #Covid19 – Joint Statement to DBE – Response to Parliamentary Briefing 29/04
- Civil Society Organisation release access to information report
- Education review reflects serious challenges amidst limited progress
- EE and EELC secure recommendation for constitutional amendment
- Press Release: International – African Human Rights Body Cautions Over Privatisation in Education in Uganda
- Equal Education demands greater attention on implementation of the Norms and Standards for School Infrastructure
- Joint Press Statement: Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre condemn the WCED’s labelling of parents seeking place for their children to learn as “invaders” and we call for an end to the standoff between the Department and parents in Du Noon, which is preventing learners from accessing school
- Joint Press Statement by Equal Education (EE) and the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC): Calling on the Western Cape Department of Education (WCED) to address school shortages and ensure full enrolment of learners of compulsory school going age
- EE and EELC welcome the Department of Basic Education’s efforts to introduce a national policy on HIV/STIs and TB
- Joint press statement by EE and EELC on KZN scholar transport crisis
- Joint Press Statement: EE, PSAM and EELC welcome recommendations to National Treasury for the establishment of a Conditional Grant for Learner Transport
- Joint press statement by Equal Education, SECTION27, Legal Resources Centre and Equal Education Law Centre
- Joint press statement by Equal Education, SECTION27, Legal Resources Centre, Equal Education Law Centre
Our Submissions
- JOINT SUBMISSION TO THE SELECT AND STANDING COMMITTEES ON DIVISION OF REVENUE AMENDMENT BILL
- SUBMISSIONS ON GENERAL COMMENT NO.27 – CHILDREN’S RIGHTS TO ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND EFFECTIVE REMEDIES
- CHILDREN’S AMENDMENT BILL 2023 (DEPARTMENT OF BASIC EDUCATION) SUBMISSION OF THE EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE
- SUBMISSIONS ON WHITE PAPER ON CITIZENSHIP, IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE PROTECTION: TOWARDS A COMPLETE OVERHAUL OF THE MIGRATION SYSTEM IN SOUTH AFRICA
- JOINT SUBMISSION TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES BY EQUAL EDUCATION AND EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE ON THE BASIC EDUCATION LAWS AMENDMENT BILL: B2B-2022
- CALL FOR SUMBISSIONS: Right to ECD Colloquium
- JOINT ALTERNATIVE REPORT BY EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE & LEARNERS ON SOUTH AFRICA’S STATE PARTY REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
- JOINT SUBMISSION BY EQUAL EDUCATION AND EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE ON THE BASIC EDUCATION LAWS AMENDMENT BILL – 2022
- Joint Submissions made by Equal Education (“EE”) and the Equal Education Law Centre (“EELC”) on the Public Procurement Bill (“the Bill”)
- Joint Submissions by the Western Cape Commissioner for Children, Equal Education Law Centre, and Triangle Project on the Draft Guidelines for the Socio-educational Inclusion of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC)
- Submissions on the Draft Guidelines for the Socio-educational Inclusion of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Expression and Sex Characteristics
- Submissions on the Protocol for the Elimination of Discrimination in and through schools: Draft 3
- Alternative report to South Africa’s 3rd Periodic Country Report under the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- EELC’s comment on South Africa’s Draft 3rd Periodic Country Report on the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Draft General Comment on Children’s Rights and the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change No 26 (202x)
- EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE’S COMPLEMENTARY REPORT ON SOUTH AFRICA’S STATE PARTY REPORT TO THE AFRICAN COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
- BUDGET JUSTICE COALITION SUBMISSION TO THE SELECT AND STANDING COMMITTEES ON FINANCE ON THE 2022 MEDIUM TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT
- COMMENTS ON THE CHILDREN’S AMENDMENT BILL [B 18B—2020] AS RELATES TO INCLUSION AND CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
- SUBMISSION ON THE DRAFT AMENDED LOCAL GOVERNMENT: MUNICIPAL PLANNING AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS, 2001
- EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE’S SUBMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT BILL, 2022
- JOINT SUBMISSION BY EQUAL EDUCATION AND EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE ON AMENDMENTS TO THE REGULATIONS RELATING TO MINIMUM UNIFORM NORMS AND STANDARDS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
- JOINT SUBMISSION BY EQUAL EDUCATION AND EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE ON THE BASIC EDUCATION LAWS AMENDMENT BILL – 2022
- SUBMISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- SUBMISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ON THE STATE OF BASIC EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
- SUBMISSION ON THE PREVENTION AND COMBATING OF HATE CRIMES AND HATE SPEECH BILL (B9-2018)
- Comments on Non-profit Organisations Draft Amendment Bill
- Joint Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- ICJ & EELC submission to Parliament on Copyright Amendment Bill [B13B-2017]
- Comments on the South African Revenue Service Physical Impairment or Disability Expenditure
- Comments on the SA Law Reform Commissions Issue Paper: No 39 Project 148 – Domestication of the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
- EE and EELC Submission on Draft Admissions Policy
- EELC Submission on the Children’s Amendment Bill – AS IT RELATES TO INCLUSION AND CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
- EELC Submission on the Children’s Amendment Bill – Provisions relating to Early Childhood Development.pdf
- Joint submission by Equal Education, SECTION27, and the Equal Education Law Centre regarding the 2020 Adjustments Appropriation Bill
- EE and EELC Submission on Draft Public Procurement Bill
- KZN Draft Learner Transport Policy
- Joint Letter to Department of Basic Education and National Treasury – 01 June 2020
- EE & EELC KZN Scholar Transport Policy Comment Submission
- Joint Letter on plans relating to the reopening of schools #COVID19 22/05
- Joint Letter on plans relating to the reopening of schools #COVID19 12/05
- EE and EELC’s Joint Letter & Submission on the Western Cape Education Departments draft guidelines on Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation in public schools
- #Covid19 – Call for global action plan on Covid-19
- #Covid19 – Open letter to Legislatures on oversight and participatory democracy during National Disaster
- #Covid19 – Call to increase the Child Support Grant
- #Covid19 – Recommendations for amendment of Covid-19 Regulations
- #Covid19 – Letter to the Department of Basic Education on support to learners with disabilities
- Open letter to the Minister of Basic Education on learner nutrition
- Joint submission on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Policy
- State Capture Inquiry – Joint Submission
- Submissions to UN Human Rights Committee on Children and Protest
- Comments on Western Cape Guidelines for sale of alcohol in schools
- Submissions on draft Expropriation Bill
- Submissions on the Amended National Policy Framework on Child Justice
- Submissions on the Children’s Third Amendment Bill
- Joint parallel report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Joint submission on draft amendments to Admission Regulations published by the Gauteng Department of Education
- Joint submissions on the review of section 25 in the context of expropriation without compensation
- Joint submissions on the Draft Pregnancy Policy
- Submission on the lack of safety and security measures in special school needs schools
- Submission on the Division of Revenue Bill
- Joint submissions on the draft Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill
- Joint submissions on administrative justice for children
- Joint Submissions on the Impact of Key Legislation on Quality and Equality in Education
- Comment on the Draft National Action Plan to Combat Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
- National Interventions into Basic Education: EE and the EELC Joint Submissions on Section 100
- Affordable Housing Promotes Access to Quality Education: Joint Submission on the Proposed Sale of Tafelberg
- Submissions on the National Learner Transport Policy
- Submission to Parliament: 2016 Division of Revenue Bill
- Sanitation and South Africa’s Schools
- Access to Food and the National School Nutrition Programme
- Comment on the Draft Regulations Relating to Minimum Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure
- EELC Comment on behalf of EE on the DBE’s Draft Policy on the Organisation, Roles and Responsibilities of Education Districts (Notice 108 of 2012)
- Comment on the National Education Evaluation and Development Unit (NEEDU) Bill (Notice 907 of 2011) – 17 February 2012
- Submission Concerning the Sub Judice Rule of the National Assembly
- Submission Concerning the DBE Draft National Policy on HIV, STIs and TB
- Comment: National Planning Commission: National Development Plan, Vision For 2030
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