PRE #MTBPS2017 MEDIA STATEMENT: FOR THE SAKE OF OUR FUTURE, MALUSI GIGABA MUST COME CLEAN.
On Wednesday 25 October, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba will present the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) to the nation. It will be the first major policy statement to South Africans since Gigaba’s shock appointment following an after-hours Cabinet reshuffle by President Jacob Zuma. The backdrop to the Minister’s maiden MTBPS is that serious questions […]
MEDIA STATEMENT: EVICTION OF 80-YEAR-OLD FARM SCHOOL LABELLED AS NOT BEING AN INJUSTICE
The Grootkraal Primary school matter was back in Court today, as the community sought permission to appeal a judgment handed down by Judge Elizabeth Baartman in August 2017. The Western Cape Education MEC, Debbie Schafer and the Kobut Besigheid Trust also reported on their unsuccessful attempts at negotiating a lease agreement that would ensure the […]
MEMORANDUM DELIVERED TO SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE IMPLEMENTING AGENT COEGA
TO BE DELIVERED TO COEGA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DOE PROGRAMME MANAGER THEMBEKA POSWA AND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CEO WE DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY OF IMPLEMENTING AGENTS AND OVERSIGHT OF CONTRACTORS! #ForgottenSchools #FixOurSchools Why We Are Here Today We are Equalisers, supporters, and members of Equal Education, a national movement of learners, parents, teachers, and community members campaigning […]
MEDIA STATEMENT: EE PICKETS AT COEGA TO FIX APPALLING SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
This morning, the Head of Security at Coega Development Corporation (Coega) attempted to intimidate Equal Education (EE), ahead of our pickets at 3pm today outside its Port Elizabeth and East London offices. The Coega Head of Security has told the Deputy Head of EE Eastern Cape that he is preparing security guards for our arrival. […]
EE AND EE LAW CENTRE JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT: CLASSROOM COLLAPSE THE RESULT OF KZN DOE NEGLIGENCE, NOT BAD WEATHER
Yesterday and today, 9 and 10 October 2017, Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre visited Enkangala Secondary School in Weenen, Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal. The visits followed reports that one of the school’s two classrooms had collapsed on 16 September 2017. It has been four weeks since the collapse of the classroom, and at least […]
EQUAL EDUCATION FULL MEDIA STATEMENT: WE PICKET OUTSIDE BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IN PRETORIA TO DEMAND FUNDING FOR SCHOLAR TRANSPORT!
Today, on Friday 6 October at 12 o’clock, 250 members of Equal Education will be picketing outside the offices of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) in Pretoria. We are demanding that a conditional grant to fund scholar transport be established – as per the public promise made by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. Our […]
HOW MANY MORE PUPILS WILL BE HURT OR KILLED AS THEY ATTEMPT TO REACH SCHOOL?
*Published by City Press Last month alone, seven pupils died and 21 more were injured as they made their way to and from public schools in KwaZulu-Natal. Fifteen of those learners are from Ngwane High in Nquthu – a school that the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department admits qualifies for government-subsidised scholar transport. However, the department is […]
EQUAL EDUCATION MEDIA STATEMENT: TRAGEDY HITS KZN LEARNERS AS THE PROMISE OF SAFE SCHOLAR TRANSPORT REMAINS UNFULFILLED
As at the end of August, at least 10 learners have died and at least 113 have been injured in taxi and bakkie collisions in KwaZulu-Natal in 2017. In one of the more recent incidents, a taxi transporting learners home from Ngwane High School in Nquthu crashed, injuring all 15 learners inside. Ngwane High is […]
EQUAL EDUCATION AND THE EQUAL EDUCATION LAW CENTRE OUTRAGED AT REPORTS THAT LEARNERS AT NORTHERN CAPE SCHOOL ARE PREGNANT BY TEACHERS
Equal Education (EE) and the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) are extremely distressed at media reports that several learners at Bothitong High School in the Northern Cape were allegedly given stipends by teachers in exchange for unprotected sex, and that learners have fallen pregnant by teachers as a result. It is abhorrent that teachers – […]
EQUAL EDUCATION SUPPORTS OUR THANDOKHULU HS BRANCH MEMBERS IN THEIR CAMPAIGN AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
Equal Education branch members from Thandokhulu High, and their fellow learners, are currently engaged in a brave struggle to secure a safe and dignified schooling environment for all learners at this school, sparked by numerous reports of sexual assault and corporal punishment by a teacher employed there. We regard the learners’ demands for a proper […]
MEDIA STATEMENT FROM EQUAL EDUCATION MEMBERS AT THANDOKHULU HIGH SCHOOL
This statement is issued by the learners of Thandokhulu High School, in Mowbray, Western Cape. It is being distributed by Equal Education on their behalf. A school is meant to be a place of safety for learners. The reported incidents of sexual harassment and corporal punishment by a teacher at Thandokhulu High School has left […]
EQUAL EDUCATION MEDIA STATEMENT: EE CONDEMNS CONTINUED EDUCATION PRIVATISATION, ESPECIALLY IN LIBERIA
Equal Education (EE) joins international civil society in condemning the increased expansion of the Liberian government’s plans to double the amount of public schools run by private actors in the country. This move forms part of the administration’s controversial plan to outsource all primary and pre-primary education in the country. The growing power of unaccountable […]
