[YOUR ADDRESS] The MEC of Education [SEE NAME OF MEC FOR YOUR PROVINCE BELOW] [SEE ADRESS DETAILS FOR YOUR PROVINCE BELOW] [SEE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR YOUR PROVINCE BELOW] Dear Honorable MEC [WRITE IN YOUR

1. Summary The DBE is drafting the Basic Education Law Amendment (BELA) Bill, and has approved a new policy on Home Education. The home education movement is seriously concerned about the process followed

Today, on the 21st of August 2018, I attended the public hearings about the Western Cape Provincial School Education Amendment Bill, with the purpose to learn how these hearing work, so that the homeschooling

After home education was legalised in 1996 in South Africa, it has grown exponentially for about 20 years. In this period it has made a difference in the lives of thousands of families. Children could

In 2017 the education sector reached a crossroad that will determine the future of education for the next decades. At the start of the school year tens of thousands of learners in Gauteng and Western Cape

By the weekend of the 10th of November the Department of Basic Education (DBE) was scrambling to deal with a tsunami of public comment on the draft Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill. By early

A commonly used quote in education is from Nelson Mandela : "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Few presentations on education do not contain this quote

There is a war between the state and parents over the hearts and minds of children all over the world. Over the last 100 years, the state gained almost complete control over education as public schools