EDUCATION

PAIA APPLICATION REVEALS SOLIDARITY’S GUIDING HAND IN MINISTER GWARUBE’S BELA REGULATIONS

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The regulations for the implementation of the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act, published yesterday, undermine the essential intention behind the Act to place the interests of learners above the interests of adults opposed to the post-apartheid transformation of public schools. The watered-down regulations are the product of a “settlement agreement” reached at a private meeting between Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube and Dr Dirk Herman, representing Afrikaner trade union, Solidarity, last November.

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MINISTER UNDERMINING BELA ACT WITH RESTRICTIVE REGULATIONS

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 Minister Siviwe Gwarube appears to be using regulations to undermine the intention of the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act and the now amended South African Schools Act. What should have been a welcome milestone, the gazetting of the first two sets of BELA regulations, nearly eight months after the Act came into effect in December 2024, has instead revealed serious concerns.

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R562 MILLION LATER – STILL NO PERMANENT WCED HEAD OFFICE, NO INNER-CITY HOUSING, AND NO ACCOUNTABILITY

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The Western Cape Government has spent over half a billion rand on office space for the Western Cape Education Department (WCED),yet it still has no permanent headquarters. This alarming misuse of public funds was revealed in written responses to GOOD by current Infrastructure MEC Tertuis Simmers and former MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, following parliamentary questions submitted in November 2020, and again in April and June 2025.

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YOUTH DAY: THE FIGHT FOR LANGUAGE JUSTICE CONTINUES

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On this Youth Day, we remember the fearless students of 1976 who took to the streets of Soweto to demand dignity in education. Their protest was not simply about textbooks or classrooms, it was a protest for voice, identity, and the right to learn in a language that empowered them, not one imposed upon them by a regime of oppression.

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