South Africa: Too Many Children Have Died in Unsafe Schools

opinion

Our new president and minister of basic education must truly commit to fixing schools rather than permitting problematic legal challenges to go ahead against legitimately instituted demands for decent schools. Have a summit, and fix the school infrastructure regulations.

Last week, SECTION27, representing the Limpopo-based organisation Better Education for All (BEFA) was in the Bhisho High Court in the Eastern Cape as an "amicus curiae" (friend of the court) to support Equal Education's case for effective school infrastructure regulations.

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