The Khula Community Development Project, represented by the Legal Resources Centre, successfully took the Eastern Cape Department of Education to court to ensure the delivery of textbooks and stationery by at least 31 March 2022 – well into the academic year.
“I am sincerely and unreservedly sorry,” provincial education departmental head Dr Naledi Mbude said to pupils, parents and teachers whose schools nine weeks into the school year have still not received their full complement of stationery and textbooks. She has much to apologise for, say educational activists.
The challenge to the renaming of Grahamstown to Makhanda looks set to head to the Supreme Court of Appeal after a full bench of the high court ruled that the name-change decision was sound in law.