Yesterday Basic Education Minister Minister, Angie Motshekga delivered her post-Council of Education Ministers (CEM) meeting statement, and her 2017 Budget Vote speech. EE welcomes the Minister’s commitment to explore funding for the National Learner Transport Policy by means of a conditional grant, and her declaration that early learning is the DBE’s “most important priority”. However,
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Equal Education Gauteng will be holding a picket outside the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE), the office of MEC Panyaza Lesufi, on Thursday 4 May 2017. On the 29 November 2013, the Minimum Norms and Standards of School Infrastructure were promulgated by Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga. This law is the result of years
Today on Thursday 27 April 2017, members and supporters of Equal Education in the Eastern Cape are marching from to the Eastern Cape Department of Education in Zwelitsha, King William’s Town. We march to present Education MEC Mandla Makupula and HOD for Education Themba Kojana with demands which arise from our recent publication: Planning
On Thursday 13 April, Equal Education (EE) Senior Leadership met with Andrew Lapping (Allan Gray – Chief Investment Officer), Saleem Sonday (Allan Gray – Head of Group Retirement Annuities), and Pieter Koornhof (Allan Gray – Analyst) to register its concerns regarding Allan Gray’s investment in Net1 and to insist on decisive action. In the past
On 8 March 2017, various media sources reported on a distressing incident having taken place at Ulwazi High School in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape. The principal of the school was reported to have forced learners to publicly disclose their sexual orientation in front of their parents, guardians and other teachers by pointing out their partners. Equal
Equal Education welcomes Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s curriculum review. It aligns with the call made by our 2016 [Draft] Education Charter, for the decolonisation of the schooling curriculum. The draft Charter, affirmed at our Teaching and Learning Summit in July 2016, states that the decolonisation of the curriculum must extend beyond content, and that
Equal Education and the EE Law Centre are deeply saddened by the passing of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada this morning. Kathrada was the embodiment of selflessness; an individual who lived and breathed the values and rights enshrined in the Constitution of South Africa. He began his career as a political activist at the age
Equal Education notes with deep concern the reports that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Deputy Minister Mcebisi Jonas have been ordered back to South Africa from an investment road show. We will oppose any Cabinet reshuffle that seeks to replace these honest officials with those who will do the bidding of President Zuma’s self-enriching friends.
MEDIA STATEMENT 1 March 2017 KwaZulu-Natal SOPA 2017: Funds for Pomp, Ceremony and SUVs but not for Scholar Transport This morning on Wednesday 1 March 2017, members of Equal Education will gather in Pietermaritzburg for the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) State of the Province Address, in protest against the callous neglect of scholar
MEDIA STATEMENT 23 FEBRUARY 2017 Budget Speech 2017: Equal Education Applauds Treasury for Prioritising Basic and Higher Education Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s 2017 Budget Speech spoke directly to two concerns that Equal Education has repeatedly raised: the importance of early childhood development (ECD), and the need for pro-poor, pro-rural funding. The establishment of a conditional
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