11 April 2018 Equal Education media statement: Victory! Buses and taxis arrive at Nquthu schools! #LongWalkToSchool Our relentless campaign for scholar transport since 2014, and our legal challenge in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in November 2017, has succeeded in getting the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department (KZN DoE) to begin to finally deliver buses and taxis to
5 April 2018 Equal Education statement: More broken promises to fix Eastern Cape schools. Since the beginning of the 2018 school year, Equal Education’s Eastern Cape team has visited 20 schools in King Williams Town, Dimbaza, Mount Coke and Zwelitsha. The conditions are dire. We discovered schools with plain pit latrine toilets, and one at
26 March 2018 Media statement: Equal Education calls for the dismissal of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and Eastern Cape Education MEC Mandla Makupula Equal Education is dismayed by the statement of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, following the meeting of the Council of Education Ministers (CEM) on 22 March 2018. If South Africans are
*The Department of Basic Education, and the Eastern Cape Department of Education, incorrectly identified her name as Viwe Jali in official public statements on 15 March 2018. Her name was Lumka Mketwa . She was 5-years-old. Equal Education is distraught that another child has drowned in a pit latrine at school. We are angered at
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
22 February 2018 Equal Education media alert: EE Western Cape picket at SOPA to demand Premier and MECs respond to 2017 #SafeSchools march and produce #DayZero school plans On October 27 2017, 5000 learner members of Equal Education (EE) in the Western Cape marched to Parliament to demand #SafeSchools and safe communities, along with members
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