Op-Ed | Long walks to school, unsafe bus rides to school and loss of lives of learners

31 October 2025 By Aluyolo Mbeki, Organiser and Yolisa Piliso, Researcher at Equal Education Section 29(1) of the Constitution guarantees that everyone has a right to a basic education and that it is an unconditionally and immediately realisable right. The Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) and provincial education departments must contend with this universally accepted […]