'The new legislation formally outlaws all forms of unfair discrimination based either on language, culture, health status or financial status ...'
"We must emphasise that the adjudication process was in favour of 90% of schools that contested and recommended adjustments, which were implemented accordingly," Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said at a media briefing in Johannesburg on Sunday.
"The remaining 10% of schools unfortunately misinterpreted their feeder zones, confusing the 30km application radius with the feeder zone determination which was not provided for in terms of the criteria for determining feeder zones. The confusion was swiftly resolved." A feeder zone is one of the criteria that a school should use when admitting pupils. It refers to the area from which a school accepts its core intake of children. Feeder zones used to be close to the relevant school.
‘The doors of learning and culture shall be opened for all’ Freedom Charter as adopted in Kliptown, 26 June 1955! Today, in Gauteng, we realized this dream thus setting our kids free to never be denied quality education because they were born n a wrong area or of their language
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