Promoting Access to Education in South Africa: A Sequential Reflection on a specific case

Abstract

The South African educational sector and the learners continues to witness restricted access due to deleterious conduct of school management personnel such as school principals and or teachers. This remains a pervasive problem despite the provisions of section 29 of the 1996 Constitution, which provides for the right to access education. Learners are still denied access to education and educational institutions and this problem escalate unabated by those entrusted with responsibilities to promote access and protect learners such as school principals and teachers. Looking into the case of Moko and other predecessor cases reviewed in this study, the paper argue that there is a need to promote access and improve awareness interventions in order to enlighten those entrusted with the responsibilities to combat any conduct aimed at devaluating access to education.