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ACHIEVING THE RIGHT TO BASIC EDUCATION What does SECTION27 do? Healthcare Education How do we do it? Advocacy marches, Litigation media etc Realisation of the right to basic education Section 29(1) (a) (a) Everyone has the right

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ACHIEVING THE RIGHT TO BASIC EDUCATION

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What does SECTION27 do?

Healthcare

Education

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How do we do it?

Litigation Advocacy – marches, media etc

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Realisation of the right to basic education – Section 29(1)

(a) (a) “Everyone has the right to a basic education, including adult basic education”

(b) Everyone has the right to further education, which the state, through reasonable measures, must make progressively available and accessible.

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What does the lack of qualification mean?

  • As opposed to: State must take reasonable legislative and other measures,

within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of this right Immediately realisable

  • Unqualified –”immediately realisable” rather than “progressively realisable”
  • A right to a good vs a right to an action
  • Reasonably justified failure to provide
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Interventions

■ Textbooks ■ Scholar transportation ■ Post provisioning ■ Infrastructure ■ Sanitation

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Sanitation Campaign

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Sanitation campaign

Broader campaign – Intervention in Norms and Standards case – Komape Structural Interdict – Ongoing advocacy

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Towards Safe and Decent School Sanitation in Limpopo: The Most Fundamental of Dignities

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Towards Safe and Decent School Sanitation in Limpopo: The Most Fundamental of Dignities

What did we do?

  • Visited
  • Called
  • 86 schools
  • Ranked
  • Desktop research – available data
  • Budget analysis
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What is the appropriate standard?

Towards Safe and Decent School Sanitation in Limpopo: The Most Fundamental of Dignities

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What did we find?

Not one of the 86 schools was “fully acceptable”

Towards Safe and Decent School Sanitation in Limpopo: The Most Fundamental of Dignities

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Kgaugelo:

Towards Safe and Decent School Sanitation in Limpopo: The Most Fundamental of Dignities

Sinago:

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Towards Safe and Decent School Sanitation in Limpopo: The Most Fundamental of Dignities

Sinago: Oriphulusa:

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What else did we find?

Budget analysis: available funds are dropping – Per learner funding going down – R7.3 Billion cuts to grants – Irregular expenditure, fruitless and wasteful expenditure

Towards Safe and Decent School Sanitation in Limpopo: The Most Fundamental of Dignities

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Our recommendations

■ Audit and database – accuracy of data

  • freely publically available
  • independently verified

■ Responsiveness of district and circuit officials ■ Protection for whistleblowers ■ An effective plan for school sanitation in Limpopo ■ Budget recommendations: – Fiscal policy - increase resources at a national level – National – equitable share formula – more for rural provinces – Provincial level – greater share of equitable share to infrastructure development

Towards Safe and Decent School Sanitation in Limpopo: The Most Fundamental of Dignities

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What are our next steps?

  • Komape in the SCA
  • Komape in the High Court
  • Possible litigation
  • Ongoing advocacy and media work on

sanitation issues

  • Ongoing advocacy and media work on

budget availability

http://limpopo-schools.section27.org.za/

Towards Safe and Decent School Sanitation in Limpopo: The Most Fundamental of Dignities