Abstract

This is the concluding part of the two articles dealing with the implementation of the right to education in South Africa and Nigeria. While the first article examines legislative measures put in place towards implementing the right to education, this follow-up article examines the non-legislative measures, that is, administrative and other measures. The article also identifies some problems such as inadequate planning, poor implementation of policies, inadequate resources and commitments as the prime factors hampering the effective implementation of the right to education in the two countries. It concludes by submitting that solving these problems andmaking the right to an education realizable call for a renewed government commitment and investment of appropriate human and financial resources on education.

Highlights

  • Avinash Govindjee BA LLB LLM (Cum Laude) LLD Professor of Law, Faculty of Law Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Port Elizabeth Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. This is the concluding part of the two articles dealing with the implementation of the right to education in South Africa and Nigeria

  • It concludes by submitting that solving these problems and making the right to an education realizable call for a renewed government commitment and investment of appropriate human and financial resources on education

  • In order to protect constitutional democracy and enhance the implementation of human rights, both the South African and Nigerian Constitutions provide for the establishment of the national human rights commissions

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SUMMARY

This is the concluding part of the two articles dealing with the implementation of the right to education in South Africa and Nigeria. While the first article examines legislative measures put in place towards implementing the right to education, this follow-up article examines the non-legislative measures, that is, administrative and other measures. The article identifies some problems such as inadequate planning, poor implementation of policies, inadequate resources and commitments as the prime factors hampering the effective implementation of the right to education in the two countries. It concludes by submitting that solving these problems and making the right to an education realizable call for a renewed government commitment and investment of appropriate human and financial resources on education

INTRODUCTION
CESCR General Comment 9
Marie “National Systems for the Protection of Human Rights” in Human Rights
12 White Paper on Education and Training in a Democratic South Africa
36 See Viljoen “The Justiciability of Socio-economic and Cultural Rights
41 See Kende Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds
45 Suit No
47 See Mbazira You Are the “Weakest Link” in Realizing Socio-Economic Rights
56 Marie “National Systems for the Protection of Human Rights” in Human Rights
64 Pillay “Implementation of Grootboom
93 See Lundy “Schoolchildren and Health
97 See Lundy “Schoolchildren and Health
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CONCLUSION
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