A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT WE REALLY NEED

For the past four years, Equal Education (EE) and the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) have been advocating that Parliament change section 100 of the Constitution to better protect pupils’ education rights.

Section 100 allows national government to intervene in a provincial department – as an extreme temporary measure – to ensure service delivery.

In 2016, EE and the EELC made a joint submission to Parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee, which is tasked with reviewing the Constitution. Our submission aimed to address a concerning trend – national interventions in provincial departments that fail to correct