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Our quest for free quality education for all
by Vumile Velaphi and Maxwell Nqeno |
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Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) on Government School Financing |
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Poem: The streets are my home
by Watson Salanje |
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The failure of School Governing Bodies to ptotect the girl learner
by Maxwell Nqeno |
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Gender-based violence, education and armed conflict
by Sarah Motha |
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Education under occupation: the case of Palestine
by Anna Weekes |
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We must survive the virus: sexism, youth and HIV-AIDS
by Linn Hjort |
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Poem: Mama listen before I tell this
by Watson Salanje |
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Education as instance of organisation: prospects and pitfalls
by Molefi Ndlovu |
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Fighting xenophobia and discrimination in our school
by David Lukhele |
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Youth Activism Works
by Zikhona Madalase |
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Opening the doors of learning and culture
by Xolani Tsalong |
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The right to build links between schools and community
by the Concerned Learners Committee of the Vaal/Sedibeng |
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Who Got Organised and What Did They Stand For: Student Organisation 1924-1994
by the Khanya Working Class History Project |
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The Right to Learn
by Students Against Financial Exclusions 2004 |
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The Settlement of Financial Exclusions at the University of the Witwatersrand
by Students Against Financial Exclusions 2004 |
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SASO Policy Manifesto, July 1971 |
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To Town!! To Eloff!!
by Soweto Students Representative Council, 1976
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Policy of the Congress of Southern Africa Students, 1979 |
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Workers, Workers, Build Support for the Student Struggles in the School!
by COSAS, 1984 |
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People's Education for People's Power
by Zwelakhe Sisulu |
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The June 16 Uprising: A Chronology from June to August 1976 |
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Barometer of Students Resistance: 1968 to 2004 |
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THE JOURNAL
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In this Edition: Struggles in Education in Post Apartheid South Africa
This is a special edition of the Khanya journal on education struggles in post-apartheid South Africa. Over the last few years students in schools and universities have begun to respond to the persistence of inequality in South Africa’s educational system [...]
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The significance of June 16 1976
Toward the end of last year at the Education Rights Project’s national education camp, I had the honour of being amongst about a hundred enthusiastic young people. This was part of a programme following the successful June 16 commemorative march in Soweto of the ERP and social movements [...]
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Recollections of an education conference
Recently, a national conference to review ten years of education in South Africa was held in Johannesburg where representatives of government, teacher unions, research organisations, and representatives of community organisations, spoke to various aspects of education [...]
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Saving the sinking education ship
Our education appears to be declining and not making a turn around. Poor schools are not even producing the quality of learners that they used to produce in the past. Not that it was the best quality or that we want to go back to the past [...]
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The 'Lost Generation' of the rainbow nation
The World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation call us the lost generation, perhaps because we have lost touch with our own cultures and are acquiring the modern culture. But it is precisely these capitalist agencies that dictate terms to our governments [...]
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Taking a second look at extra lessons
There is a project of Saturday extra lessons that has been introduced in Lekoa / Vaal by the department of education aimed at improving the performance of grades 10 to 12 mathematics and science learners. It is an important project, but there are a few things that I do not understand [...]
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The implications of school uniforms
In most township schools teachers are using uniforms to discriminate against those who cannot afford to pay for school uniforms. In schools around Soweto learners are constantly locked out of schools for not having a full uniform. The uniforms issue affects all school children but more so children living in informal settlements [...]
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Our quest for free quality education for all
We all thought that in freedom all people will have equal opportunity to liberate their minds and accumulate wisdom and knowledge. In the ten year old democratic South Africa, society has to some extent been deracialized but class segregation is being recreated. It is only the middle class and the elites of the country that have the privilege [...]
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Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) on Government School Financing
This document was submitted to the national department of education in response to a call by the department for the public to respond to the Review of the Costs and Resourcing of Public Schools. The review of certain aspects of education policy was in part prompted by the work of the Anti-privatisation Forum [...]
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Poem: The streets are my home
The streets are my home, The streets are my hiding place, I have sought refuge in the streets, I have soughtrefuge from hunger, poverty, abuse [...]
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The failure of School Governing Bodies to ptotect the girl learner
The government has not made much progress to combat violations of girl learners in public schools. Recent reports we have received with regard to the issue show that sexual harassment of and violence against girls by boy learners is still very high [...]
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Gender-based violence, education and armed conflict
This article will draw on the experiences of people in a number of countries that have recently experienced armed conflicts or, rather, exist under conditions of military invasions. It will also discuss how sexual violence affects the education of children in general, and especially girl learners or teenagers in the process [...]
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Education under occupation: the case of Palestine
A group of students, academics and workers from the Right to Education Campaign based at Bir Zeit University, Palestine, visited South Africa in February 2004. They were hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Committee. Their aim of their visit was to understand education issues in South Africa and discuss the serious problems confronting students and staff in Palestine [...]
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We must survive the virus: sexism, youth and HIV-AIDS
The HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern and South Africa has resulted in widespread social problems and individual suffering. Among those living with HIV/AIDS two groups are most affected - women and youth. In South Africa, around 5,3 million people live with HIV [...]
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Poem: Mama listen before I tell this
Mama, mama listen before I tell you this, mama listen remember when I went to my fellow mans country, mama remember when I said I'm going to seek refuge in my fellow mans land, mama listen, listen before I tell you this, mama from the day I got there I lived in fear, mama fear was following me everywhere in that land [...]
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Education as instance of organisation: prospects and pitfalls
Over the past few years we have seen considerable growth in emerging social movements in terms of the number of constituent community organisations taking part in struggles, as well as the scope of issues covered It is within this context that education has increasingly become a key demand within South African social movements [...]
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Fighting xenophobia and discrimination in our school
From the 31st March to the 1st of April the Learner Representative Forum hosted a workshop that aimed to deal with the issues of xenophobia and discrimination, for high school learners in the Lekoa / Vaal area. The workshop was attended by 60 learners and youth activists and was held at Zone 7 community library in Sebokeng [...]
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Youth Activism Works
In three general elections the people of South Africa including the youth have been promised free education, jobs, free water and housing. Election after election young people wake up to the same world, the election promises having not been fulfilled [...]
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Opening the doors of learning and culture
The Education Rights Project is an important initiative by the Wits Education Policy Unit. It is a tool to educate and help communities organise around their right to free and quality education. This project works with learners and parents faced with a range of violations of education rights [...]
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The right to build links between schools and community
In the past few months education struggles have become the focus of the Bophelong community. The community joins many other communities and organisations in Gauteng and other parts of the country in taking the struggle for free quality education for all [...]
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Who Got Organised and What Did They Stand For: Student Organisation 1924-1994
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The Right to Learn
Higher education is today only possible for those with money. This is the message being sent out by Professor Nongxa when he cuts financial aid to disadvantaged students by 50% and then complains when we disrupt classes of paying students in anger [...]
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The Settlement of Financial Exclusions at the University of the Witwatersrand
The SRC may have brought the management back to the negotiating table but the demands that we are fighting for have not been sealed or secured. Yesterday was marked by confusion. Students were unsure whether the 50% cuts had been reinstated and whether they could continue classes with the confidence of financial security [...]
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SASO Policy Manifesto, July 1971
SASO is a Black Student Organisation working for the liberation of the Black man first from psychological oppression by themselves through inferiority complex and secondly from physical oppression accruing out of living in a white racist society [...]
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To Town!! To Eloff!!
This will be the new step - the fourth in series - by the revolutionary people of South Africa. Countrymen, the liberatory struggle has brought a new phase, namely the shattering of the myth that the Coloureds are more white than black. The killing of many of them in Cape Town and their stand, together with their African brethren [...]
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Policy of the Congress of Southern Africa Students, 1979
Will determine the interest of all in the education of the country. - Will disseminate ideas that will lead the people towards an education which leaves every one free to think, Act and live. - Will in the final analysis lead to total liberation in South Africa [...]
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Workers, Workers, Build Support for the Student Struggles in the School!
For many months 1000s and 1000s of us have struggled in the schools. We students united in massive boycotts to fight for our demands: • Student Representative Coucils (SRCs) in every school • An end to all age restrictions • For the reinstatement of every single expelled student [...]
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People's Education for People's Power
I welcome you to this historic gathering, a meeting of people from all over the country, from every province, from big and small towns, rural and urban areas. We gather here as a meeting of people drawn from all walks of life, from all sections of the people: students, teachers, parents, workers, community and political leaders [...]
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The June 16 Uprising: A Chronology from June to August 1976
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Barometer of Students Resistance: 1968 to 2004
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