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Put the Money Back in Classrooms Eastern Cape Schools
The 2025 matric results were announced on 13 January 2026, and the class of 2025 has been rightly celebrated for its record national pass rate. Nationally, the Class of 2025 achieved a historic result. But the Eastern Cape remains at the bottom of the provincial table with a pass rate [...]
Matric results and the unfinished work of safe scholar transport
As the 2026 school year begins, the 2025 National Senior Certificate results once again expose the deep inequalities in South Africa’s education system. Nationally, the pass rate rose to 88%, yet the Eastern Cape recorded the lowest provincial pass rate at 84.17%. While many learners deserve celebration, these results also [...]
Child literacy: we can change how the story ends
Benchmarking the future: Using FUNS to secure the Right to Read It was in the 2019 State of the Nation Address that President Cyril Ramaphosa first promised that every ten-year-old in South Africa would read for meaning by 2030. It was a bold commitment, one that, at the time, had [...]
PILG 2025: From Legal Promises to Public Accountability
Next week, public interest lawyers, activists and community organisers gather at Wits University for the Public Interest Law Gathering on 22 to 23 October under the theme “Unfinished Freedom: interrogating the leaps between legal promises and lived realities.” The title is well chosen. South Africa’s institutions have accumulated policies, frameworks [...]
18 Years Without a Name: Siphesihle’s Journey to Recognition
When Siphesihle Khumalo walked into her matric year, her focus was the same as every other learner’s: to finish school and take the next step toward her dreams. But in November 2024, just weeks before her final exams, she was told she could not write, not because of her grades [...]
Advisory opinion: An opportunity for environmental justice action
Recent International Court of Justice and Inter-American Court of Human Rights Advisory Opinions on climate change set binding obligations for states to address this emergency. Ten INCLO members reflect on these guidelines following their joint submissions to both advisory opinions. In less than two months, some of the world’s highest [...]
My Journey as a Candidate Attorney at the LRC
I am Zahraa Motani, a second year Candidate Attorney at the Legal Resources Centre. My journey as a candidate began in January of 2024. The LRC has a relationship with Bowmans where I had the opportunity to attend their Practical Legal Training (PLT) lectures for the month of January. This [...]
Understanding the Cost of Unpaid Subsidies on Young Children
Hundreds of early childhood development (ECD) centres across KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) are facing severe financial strain, many on the verge of closure. At the heart of this crisis is the Department of Education’s ongoing failure to pay subsidies owed to registered centres serving some of the province’s poorest communities. This is [...]
A Decade-Long Fight for Dignified Housing
For nearly a decade, the Legal Resources Centre has stood alongside the occupiers of Plot 168 in Pomona, working to ensure that their rights to dignified emergency housing were upheld in the face of eviction. In this case, the LRC represented 30 households (the occupiers’) occupying Plot 168 of Pomona, [...]
