In 2018, a group of concerned Eastern Cape parents approached the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) for legal assistance. The low-fee and no-fee schools their children attended were extremely overcrowded, despite many years of pleading with local authorities to build more classrooms or reduce class sizes. Class numbers at these schools routinely exceeded 80 learners per […]
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Published on Daily Maverick, 14 November 2019 https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-11-14-land-rights-holders-square-up-to-ingonyama-trust/ The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) will be in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on 22 November on behalf of Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac), the Rural Women’s Movement (RWM) and seven informal land-rights holders to challenge the compulsory signing of lease agreements […]
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LRC LRC submits it is time for the Minister of Home Affairs to practise what he preaches On 22 October 2019 the Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, was asked to comment on why the Department of Basic Education was barring undocumented children from going to school. The Minister was briefing a joint meeting of […]
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