Open letter to the Minister of Basic Education and the Director General of the Department of Basic Education

By Centre for Child Law

Posted on 26 June 2012

A number of civil society organisations, deeply concerned about the significant problems facing the Department of Basic Education that stand in the way of ensuring every learner's constitutional right to education, wrote an open letter to the Minister and Director General of Basic Education.

The Centre for Child Law, the Legal Resources Centre, Equal Education, Equal Education Law Centre, Section27 and CALS, all organisations deeply concerned about the significant problems facing the Department of Basic Education that stand in the way of ensuring every leaner's constitutional right to education, wrote an open letter to the Minister and Director General of Basic Education. The organisations have represented learners, school governing bodies, crisis committees and other non-governmental organisations in litigation against the Department.

The letter invited the Minister to convene an urgent meeting of the relevant role players, including the signatories to the letter, to discuss a sustainable strategic plan which moves beyond litigation to address the immediate and long tern systemic failures in the provision of the right to education.

The meeting should identify short and long-term interventions that will ensure the continuation of services and processes that must be implemented to resolve the many systemic barriers to the provision of education in the country.

For more information please see the links below:
Open letter to the Minister and Director General of Basic Education
21 June 2012
Press release on the open letter
25 June 2012
Department of Education 'will accept legal action over posts'
Business Day, 13 June 2012
Court action to fill vacant Eastern Cape teaching posts
Daily Dispatch, 05 June 2012

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