Time to act on child education – SAHRC
2013-01-31 13:13
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Johannesburg - South Africa needs to develop an education system that will
ensure every child receives good basic education, the SA Human Rights
Commission said on Thursday.
"After 20 years into the democratic dispensation we are still arguing
about the norms and standards of education," the commission's chairperson,
advocate Lawrence Mushwana, told journalists at the launch of the Charter of
Basic Education Rights.
"We need to once and for all come up with a system that will ensure
good quality education for all."
The charter provides standards for realising quality education and
guidelines for those entrusted with the provision of basic education. It is
also intended to generate discussions towards the improvement of education in
the country, Mushwana said.
Little action
"Every child is entitled to good education. We have spent time talking
and with little action as far as the child's right to education is
concerned."
The basic education department and organisations such as Advocacy Aid,
Unicef, the Children's Institute and the Legal Resources Centre were some of
the organisations that helped the SAHRC draft the charter.
Unicef's South Africa representative Aida Girma said the country had joined
the only two other countries in the world that had children education charters.
"Only the United Kingdom and Ireland have the charters. We commend the
SAHRC for their efforts to ensure that the right to education [issue] is
addressed."
- SAPA
