27 May 2020 Joint media statement: The Department of Basic Education commits to ensuring the National School Nutrition Programme reaches all learner beneficiaries from 1 June During an engagement with education stakeholders yesterday, the Department of Basic Education confirmed that – in addition to Grade 7 and 12 learners returning to school on 1 June
27 May 2020 Equal Education media statement: Draft KZN scholar transport policy is vague, incoherent and fails to meet the standards for improving learners’ access to education Last month (April 2020), the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education (KZN DoE) finally published the province’s draft scholar transport policy for public comment. Equal Education (EE) and the Equal
The plans and the decisions of government, learners, school staff and caregivers, around #ReopeningSchools, need to be informed by the best available medical evidence. The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) has published a guiding document with recommendations on how to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in schools. The CMSA is an examination body
12 May 2020 Joint media statement: The Department of Basic Education must present clear and comprehensive plans to the public Equal Education (EE), Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) and SECTION27 welcome the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) announcement that final plans on the phased re-opening of schools will be presented publicly tomorrow, Thursday 14 May.
6 May 2020 Media statement: Testimonies of Equal Education members (learners, teachers, parents) demand cohesive and detailed implementation plans from basic education authorities Last week Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga revised the provisional date for Grade 7 and Grade 12 learners to return to school, from 6 May to 1 June. While Equal Education (EE)
29 April 2020 Media statement: Basic education authorities have not convincingly demonstrated that all schools will be provided with the necessary resources and support to reopen next Wednesday This morning the Department of Basic Education (DBE) presented its Covid-19 sector plan to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Basic Education. Equal Education (EE), the Equal Education Law
The C19 People’s Coalition was born a month ago, and includes 250 organisations from across civil society in all provinces, including community-based organisations, social movements, non-governmental organisations, research institutions, faith-based organisations and others. It is the broadest grouping of civil society that has come together to address the current crisis. Read our Programme of Action (POA). Public pressure
23 April 2020 Equal Education media statement: Victory! The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education finally releases a draft scholar transport policy! #LongWalkToSchool Our relentless campaign for scholar transport since 2014, and our legal challenge in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, has succeeded in getting the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education (KZN DoE) to release a draft scholar transport
The Presbyterian Church of Africa supports Equal Education’s call to protect our schools from being burgled and vandalised. We are a society that deserves quality education with quality infrastructure. The little resources that we have should not be destroyed. It has been proven beyond doubt that destruction of what we have does not take the
20 April 2020 Equal Education media statement: Call for urgent meeting of Parliamentary committees to protect children from hunger and malnutrition Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre – alongside the Centre for Child Law, the Children’s Institute and Section27 – are calling for an urgent joint meeting between Parliament’s Portfolio Committees on Basic Education
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