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Articles about the EELC
- 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
- How far would you walk to get an Education
- Get Up, Stand Up, Fight like Lerato
Articles and Papers by the EELC
- Access to Information Annual Report
- Report on the State of Education
- Provision of Basic Education in Detention
- Failing to respect and to fulfil South African law and the right to protest for children
- Access to Information Network: Shadow Report 2017
- Access to Information Network: Shadow Report 2016
- Public School Funding
- The Right to Inclusive Education
- Obligations to Protect Learners Against Sexual Offenses
- EE & EELC Shadow Report on the Department of Basic Education 2013 – 2014
- Civil Society Alternate Report to the UNCRC
Articles by the EELC
- 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
General
- Recent civil society monitoring emphasises below average performance of the legislatures
- Western Cape High Court hears argument on discrimination against divorced mothers when applying for school fee exemptions
- Minister Motshekga’s Ugly Lesson for Learners
- NGO Statement on Helen Suzman Foundation Raid
- PRESS STATEMENT: DELAYED AND INADEQUATE – LIMPOPO FINALLY RELEASES PLAN TO FIX PROVINCE’S SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE, AND IT IS FLAWED
- National Learner Transport Policy a Step in the Right Direction — But Not Enough
Know Your Rights
- Access to Justice and Covid-19
- Corporal Punishment is against the Law
- Disciplinary hearings in Schools: A learner guide
- The Right to Protest
- Learner Pregnancy and the Right to Education
- Water and Sanitation in Schools
- Withholding of a learner’s reports is unlawful
- The Right to Apply for Fee Exemptions
- Disciplinary Processes in Public Schools
- New pamphlet on the Long Walk to School (IsiZulu)
- New pamphlet on the Long Walk to School (English)
- A damages claim in instances of corporal punishment
- Taking rights forward: mobilisation,organization and public participation authored by Daniel Sher (Equal Education) and Hopolang Selebalo (Ndifuna Ukwazi)
- Education rights in independent schools authored by Shaun Franklin
- Corporal punishment authored by Faranaaz Veriava (Section 27) and Tina Power (Legal Resources Centre)
- Sexual violence in schools authored by Kate Peterson (Section 27)
- School violence authored by Tina Power (Legal Resources Centre)
- Scholar transport authored by Solominic Joseph (Former attorney at Equal Education Law Centre) and Julian Carpenter (Former Intern at Equal Education Law Centre)
- Textbooks authored by Nikki Stein (Section 27)
- Post provisioning authored by Sarah Sephton (Legal Resources Centre)
- Infrastructure and equipment authored by Lisa Draga (Equal Education Law Centre)
- Basic education provisioning authored by Faranaaz Veriava (Section 27)
- Language in schools authored by Nikki Stein (Section 27)
- Religion and culture in public education in South Africa authored by Tim Fish Hodgson (Section27)
- Sexual orientation and gender identity in schools authored by Nurina Ally (Equal Education Law Centre) and Tshego Phala (Webber Wenztel)
- Pregnancy authored by Lisa Draga, Chandre Stuurman and Demichelle Petherbridge (Equal Education Law Centre)
- School fees authored by Sherylle Dass (Former Attorney Equal Education Law Centre) Amanda Rinquest (Equal Education Law Centre)
- The rights of refugees and migrant workers authored by Kaajal Ramthajan-Keogh (Southern Africa Litigation Centre)
- The right to basic education for children with disabilities authored by Silomo Khumalo (Section27) and Tim Fish Hogson (Section27)
- Equality and unfair discrimination in education authored by Chris McConnachie (Rhodes University)
- School Governance authored by Sebastian Mansfield-Barry (Centre for Child Law) and Lithalethemba Stwayi (Centre for Child Law)
- Funding basic education authored by Daniel McLaren (Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute)
- The Constitution and the right to basic education authored by Chris McConnachie (Rhodes University), Ann Skelton (Centre for Child Law) and Cameron McConnachie (Legal Resources Centre)
- Public school funding
- Fix Our Schools: The Struggle for quality school infrastructure continues
- The Rights of LGBTI Learners
- Corporal Punishment is Against the Law
- The Right to be Admitted to a Public School
Media
- 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
- 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
Our Work
- The Saffer Case: Protecting Mother of a Learner who was unfairly denied fee exemption
- The Duty to Protect Learners from Dangerous Environments at School: The Komape Case
- Access to Schools and Protecting Against Discriminatory Language Policies
- Addressing Deficiencies in South Africa’s School Infrastructure Law: The Norms and Standards Case
- Scholar Transport as a Component of the Right to Basic Education
- Protecting Legitimate Expectations for Delivery of School Infrastructure
- Protecting Learners from Prejudicial Disciplinary Processes
- Protecting Learners at Under Resourced and Dysfunctional Schools
- Protecting Schools from Eviction from Private Land: The Grootkraal Case
- Protecting the Right to Protest: EELC files urgent application against City of Cape Town following refusal to grant permission for Human Rights Day March
- Learners’ rights to equality, dignity and freedom of religion
- Access to Schools: The Du Noon Community Matter
Press Releases
- New landmark Abidjan Principles on the right to education and private actors adopted by experts
- Joint Statement: Civil society organisations test government’s commitment to human rights at the United Nations
- UN resolution shows growing consensus on the need to regulate private involvement in education
- Day two of Equal Education’s court case to fix the national school infrastructure law
- Equal Education (EE) school infrastructure court case #FixTheNorms
- Media statement – Civil Society Calls on the Finance Minister to deliver a pro-poor 2018 budget
- Media statement – Relief for single parents seeking school fee exemptions
- Equal Education Media Statement : Victory for EE in the scholar transport court case
- EE AND EE LAW CENTRE JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT: CLASSROOM COLLAPSE THE RESULT OF KZN DOE NEGLIGENCE, NOT BAD WEATHER
- Open letter to the Deputy Minister of Police
- Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre outraged at reports that learners at Northern Cape school are pregnant by teachers
- The EELC and 173 organisations worldwide call investors to cease support to American chain of schools Bridge International Academies
- Joint media statement – Defending the right to protest
- Provincial Task Team intervention: Discrimination against LGBTI learners at Eastern Cape school
- JOINT PRESS RELEASE – EASTLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL
- Uganda judgement on the closure of Bridge International Academies must signal a move towards fulfilling the right to education in Uganda and other countries
- Equal Education and EE Law Centre’s analysis of DBE Annual Report 2015/16: a superficial effort at public accountability
- JUDGMENT ON THE STRUGGLE OF SINGLE MOTHERS IN APPLYING FOR SCHOOL FEE EXEMPTIONS
- Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre support the process of closing and merging schools in the Eastern Cape – on condition that it is lawful and democratic
- Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre call for Constitutional Amendment
- Statement of Support for the #Bophelohouse94 and the Right to Protest
- Solidarity with our Palestinian Lawyer Colleagues
- Three Nquthu Schools Receive Scholar Transport
