South Africa: Attending School While Undocumented

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A case to be heard in the High Court in Makhanda will substantially impact on nearly a million learners inside and on the peripheries of the South African public school system.

On 18 and 19 September 2019, a High Court in the town of Makhanda, Eastern Cape, will hear arguments in Centre for Child Law and others v Minister of Basic Education and others. The case will substantially impact on nearly a million learners inside and on the peripheries of the South African public school system - children who have come to be known as "undocumented learners".

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