Legal Articles and Guides
ConCourt finds for children in parents' clash with school
The Constitutional Court has ruled that private (or independent) schools may no longer rely on contracts with parents as the basis for kicking children out of school without a fair hearing, notes a GroundUp report.
Independent schools' contract ruling today
The Constitutional Court will rule today on the obligations and duties of independent schools, says a report on the IoL site.
Lawyer threatens universities with legal action
Attorney Comfort Ngidi is threatening legal action against KZN’s three top universities if lectures do not resume soon under alert level three, says a News24 report.
Legal heavyweights to fight for feeding of poor pupils
Equal Education and two Limpopo schools have taken the Department of Basic Education to court in an attempt to force them to feed all pupils who qualify for the government’s National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP).
Maimane turns to High Court to protect pupils
Government’s plan to ensure the safety of pupils in schools should be supervised by the courts or an independent body. That’s what One SA Movement, a non-profit organisation, is fighting for in a new court bid, notes a City Press report.
Maimane heads to court to block schools reopening
The founder of the One South Africa (OSA) movement, former DA leader Mmusi Maimane, has announced plans to mount a legal challenge to the reopening of schools.
Maimane hints at legal action over schools reopening
One SA Movement leader Mmusi Maimane said yesterday he will give President Cyril Ramaphosa and the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) 48 hours to outline the reasons why they have decided to reopen schools on 1 June.
Motshekga delays 'back to school' decision
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has delayed yesterday’s planned announcement about when schools will reopen, saying she still has to determine whether provincial education departments are ready to do so, notes a BusinessLIVE report.
Back to school schedule thrown into confusion
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s plan to have principals and other members of school management teams (SMTs) back at school on Monday has suffered a serious setback.
Schools re-opening case struck from roll
The Limpopo High Court (Polokwane) has struck an urgent application off the roll that sought to prevent the Department of Basic Education from reopening schools under level four of the lockdown.
Tentative June date for return to schools
The Department of Basic Education will probably be able to start phasing in a return to school from 1 June, according to Minister Angie Motshekga.
Wits law students fight evacuation decision
Two Wits law students filed an urgent application in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) yesterday seeking to interdict the evacuation of students from residences.
Grey College SGB members heading to court again
Twelve members of the governing body of Grey College in Bloemfontein – among them several heavyweights in the legal fraternity – are heading to court again to prevent their removal and a declaration that the head of education does not have the powers to remove them.
Department ordered to provide emergency classrooms
The governing bodies of four heavily overcrowded schools in the Eastern Cape claimed victory in the Eastern Cape High Court (Mthatha) yesterday when the court ordered the Eastern Cape Department of Education to provide 65 emergency mobile classrooms to the schools within the next three months.
Expelled student in bid to return to Rhodes
The court battle between Rhodes University and Yolanda Dyantyi – a student it expelled for being part of a violent campus protest against ‘rape culture’ at the Makhanda institution – is on hold for now.
