The hearing of our #FixTheNorms court case resumes in the Bhisho High Court today. This case is of national importance. If the court agrees with Equal Education, it will mean that the country’s law on school infrastructure will be tightened, and there will not be any excuse for any failure by the nine provinces to
As part of the 14th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), Equal Education (EE) reaffirms solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle for self-determination, and our commitment to forwarding the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in South Africa. We recognise the militarised occupation of Palestine as one of the starkest and most vicious
Tomorrow, EE is holding a roundtable discussion on our school infrastructure court case. On Wednesday 14 March and Thursday 15 March, the Bhisho High Court will hear our case to fix the school infrastructure law. EE will be picketing outside the court. We want government to commit to meeting the school infrastructure targets that it
Ten years ago, activists and education experts came together to discuss the inequality in education in South Africa. They recognised the need to mobilise communities, and for a people’s movement for education quality and inequality to be led by young people. The democratic, membership-based organisation that was then envisioned, is Equal Education (EE). In March
Today Premier Stanley Mathabatha delivers the State of the Province Address (SOPA) for Limpopo. Today, at Mmababada Primary in Limpopo there are no toilets accessible to learners. The 425 learners share four buckets placed around the school. When the buckets fill up, learners relieve themselves elsewhere on the school premises, in the open. “There is
The national budget that Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba yesterday tabled does not take from the rich, to redistribute to the poor. It does not do all it can to advance the realisation of socio-economic rights. Instead, the 2018/19 budget places a disproportionate burden on the poor, in order to plug a shortfall that is a
Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as the fifth President of South Africa, carries with it the hopes of millions who seek a better life in an equal and just society. Ramaphosa takes office in the shadow of nine years of calamitous rule by Jacob Zuma – whose tenure was marked by State capture, spiralling inequality, the hollowing
*Published by Daily Maverick Dear President Weah, Congratulations on your election to the presidency of the Liberian government; indeed you continue to play a leading role in showing the world that in you Liberia has capacity. President Weah, your term in office begins at a time when Liberia is on the brink of bankruptcy, and
Yesterday Western Cape Premier Helen Zille wrote: “There are over 900 schools in the Cape Town Metro, of which 423 have boreholes… It is obviously essential to provide water to schools without boreholes. But this must still be finalised.” Therefore 477 schools in Cape Town currently lack definitive plans to avoid closure on Day Zero, which
Millions of children next week enter the most important period of their school careers – the foundation phase (grades R to 3). It is in these grades that basic learning skills must be acquired. All later learning is built on this aptly named stage of schooling: “children who do not master basic concepts in the
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