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It’s 2024, yet many Eastern Cape schools still struggle to meet basic Norms and Standards. Equal Education’s Eastern Cape team recently visited three schools - Ndabankulu JSS, Piet Mlandu Primary School, and Thyinirha Primary School - in Amathole, where dire infrastructure conditions persist.
#FixOurSchools #NormsAndStandards
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VICTORY WON!
We celebrate a major win in our fight for equal access to education! Through litigation and advocacy, we’ve made significant strides. But our work isn’t done yet. We’re gearing up for part B of the case next year.
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#SofundaSonke #EqualEducation #AccessForAll
[Announcement] The final popup stations will be happening this weekend the 30th of November 2024. Please listen to the details in our video and make sure you visit these stations if you need assistance in the Western Cape Metro East community of Khayelitsha. These popup stations were a result of parents like Mam Daphe Erosi taking the @westerncapegov to court over school admissions. Together with the @eelawcentre part B of the admissions case still needs to be heard in court.
Makanatsa Ziyambi, EE Community Leader and National Council member reflects on provincial education departments’ use of prefabricated classrooms as a response to learner growth. #FixourSchools #normsandStandards
Marvin Sibande, EE Community Leader reflects on the infrastructure challenges overcrowded schools face and the importance of the school infrastructure law deadlines in addressing them. #normsandstandards #fixourschools
"We will continue on this journey until we find the answers we are looking for because at the end of the day, sizofunda sonke, all of our children are going to go to schools". These are the words of Equal Education Eastern Cape organiser Athi Zangqa. This year, we celebrate another anniversary of implementing the Minimum Uniform Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure into law. Although we celebrate this win we see that there is still a backlog in the system with no deadlines due to them being removed by the Department of Basic Education. Implementing agents sometimes leave schools with incomplete sites, placing learners in peril. We call on the Department of Basic Education to #FixOurSchools and more accountability towards #NormsandStandards.
“Toilets are a place for progress” UN-Water
Access to proper sanitation in school is not a privilege. It is mandated by the constitutional court that every school in South Africa must have access to adequate water and sanitation as it forms a part of the hard fought Norms and Standards. It is key to accessing the right to basic education. @dbe_za , @limpopoeducation and @kzngov , the moving of the goalpost when it comes to Norms & Standards only hurts the learners who form part of your constituency. According to the UN “toilets are a place for progress” but here as we can see the toilets from Bongumenzi High School in KZN are not up to the Norms & Standards set out by the constitutional court. #FixOurSchools #SeretiModikolong #SofundaSonke!
[WorldToiletDay] 🚽🚻 This year’s theme for World Toilet Day is “Toilets are a place for peace”. As it stands 1770 South African public schools still have unsafe and illegal pit toilets on site even after years of promises to remove plain pit toilets in schools. Water and sanitation form part of the norms and Standards that the @basic_education_rsa_ is mandated, by law to follow.
We call on @dbe_za, @siv_gwarube, LDoE, and @kzn_education to add the removal of ALL plain pit toilets from schools to your performance contract as NO learners should not continue to be stripped of their dignity because of your failures! We call for action on safe and clean sanitation but also underscore the link between sanitation, safety and human dignity.! #FixOurSchools #SeritiModikolong #SofundaSonke #worldtoiletday
