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Articles about the EELC
- 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
- Disciplinary hearings: some schools are flouting the rules
- Inclusive education: Girls and boys must be treated equally
- Rigid attitude of schools puts pupils on the path to prison – but it’s against the law
- 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
- How far would you walk to get an Education
- Get Up, Stand Up, Fight like Lerato
Articles and Papers by the EELC
- FULL REPORT: “LET IN OR LEFT OUT?” A TWENTY-YEAR REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
- SUMMARY REPORT: “LET IN OR LEFT OUT?” A TWENTY-YEAR REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
- Summary of the relevant regulations, directives, guidelines, and circulars issued by the DBE in its efforts to prevent and manage the spread of COVID-19 in schools
- 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
- 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
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
- ADMISSION PROCESS FOR LEARNERS
- LEARNER PLACEMENT GUIDE FOR PARENTS
- THE PROMOTION & PROGRESSION OF LEARNERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- EELC ADVICE CLINIC FAQs
- What are Learners with Disabilities entitled to when they return to school?
- Rights of Learners with Disabilities
- 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
- 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
- Rest in Power George Bizos
- 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
- 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
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
