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Judgment on the Basic Education Case
Pease judgment 18.92015.Final morning docx
Basic Education Litigation
Read the founding papers in the court case in which the government is sued by Jean Pease and the Progressive Principals Association to secure delivery of the right to basic education. The case focuses on the promotion of early childhood development, the...
Participatory Democracy For The Young
Primary school children from the Pinelands North Primary School were treated to an unusual, if not unique, outing when they were given the opportunity of visiting the Western Cape Parliament and presenting its select committee on agriculture and environmental affairs...
The Education Debate
Everyone in SA, child and adult alike, is entitled to a basic education according to our Bill of Rights - no ifs, no buts. In the first year of our current Constitution 1,19 million black learners entered the public school system in grade 1, most seeking the "quality...
Truly Professional Teachers Are Needed Now
Basic education, the process of learning and teaching the applicable curricula in our public schools up to matric level, inescapably occurs in the classroom, not in the 27,000 principals' offices, not in the management offices of departments of education and not in...
The Right to Basic Education and the Green Paper
One of the priorities of the new administration is education. This is as it should be. Without a functioning basic education system in place the sustainability of the democratic project in the country, and indeed peace, progress and prosperity are all endangered. The...
The Constitution, Education and Racism
The Constitution of South Africa is founded on the values of non-racialism and non-sexism. Yet, fifteen years after the introduction of multi-party democracy, the "race debate", which focuses on the nation's habitual racism, continues unabated and unresolved. It is...
First Steps in Basic Education
Everyone in South Africa is entitled to a basic education. This is a right guaranteed to child and adult alike in our Bill of Rights. The state is obliged to promote and fulfill this right. It has not been doing so on a disastrous scale. The statistics are sobering;...
Public School Principals and the principles of accountability (cont.)
It is not alarmist to suggest that the public school system in South Africa is dysfunctional. The last year for which comprehensive statistics are available is 2007. In that year 278,000 black learners did emerge clutching their matriculation certificates proudly in...
Mamphela Ramphele’s Five Point Plan for Education (cont.)
So when a former Vice Chancellor of UCT, who is also ex managing director of the World Bank, recently took the trouble to address national education issues at the invitation of the Social Justice Coalition, her message deserves close attention. Mamphela Ramphele did...
Reforming Basic Education in South Africa (cont.)
One of the more hopeful signs to emerge from the changes wrought at Polokwane is that the new leadership of the ANC appears to have identified the state of basic education in the country as a problem in need of urgent attention. The recently published article by Blade...
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