IN SHORT: Amendments to South Africa's basic education ... to be "taught to masturbate" and grant schools control over abortions. Now that it's an act, it still doesn't include changes to the ...

The Act, designed to modernise and equalise South Africa’s education system ... control over language and admissions policies ...

The South African Schools Act of 1996 stipulates that schooling is compulsory for all South Africans from the age of seven, starting at grade one, to the age of 15, or the completion of grade nine.

What many critics don’t seem to realise is that the South African Schools Act already has policies in place to deal with ...

The portfolio committee on basic education has summarised the feedback processed so far in relation to proposed changes to South Africa’s school laws. In a presentation this week (6 December ...

What many critics don’t seem to realise is that the South African Schools Act already has policies in place to deal with admissions at school. There have, in fact, been very few cases in ...

This amended piece of legislation introduces a few changes to the South African Schools Act (SASA) of 1996 and the Employment of Educators Act (EEA) of 1998 (Act No. 76 of 1898). Some examples of ...