The South African Schools Act of 1996 (SASA) mandates the establishment of school governing bodies (SGBs), comprising parents, educators and non-educator members of staff. As parents are required to form the majority on an SGB, they have been placed in a powerful position with authority to ...
South Africa Schools Actdemocracysocial capitalCritics of school governing bodies (SGBs) – both on the left and on the right – tend to rely upon arguments that ignore significant portions of the act that created SGBs – the South African Schools Act (SASA) – the exact nature of the ...
Also, the South African Schools Act (SASA of 1996) states that schools must admit all learners without discrimination. However, equality of access to education is still problematic and has remained a major problem and a challenge in South African schools. That is the reason why in this paper ...
The authors demonstrate that the three major pieces of education framework legislation—National Education Policy Act (NEPA), South Africa Schools Act (SASA) and Employment of Educators Act (EEA)—conspire with recent historical events and deep political and constitutional commitments to create South ...
(Hattang and Venter,2011: 90). The new government immediately abolished segregation and inequality in education. It passed the South African Schools Act (SASA) which deracialized the system and brought all learners under a unified national authority (DoE,1996). The national department had ...
This article will focus on two: South African Schools Act, Act 84 of 1996 (SASA) and Limpopo Province Financial Management Prescripts Limpopo of 2011. In terms of SASA, the financial functions of SGB committees are outlined in sections 36 to 43. Primarily these functions are to be carried ...
“an umbrella term used to describe informal saving organisations in the African community in South Africa.”Footnote7This definition recognises that stokvels have different objectives, institutional structures, number of members, management styles, and governance. It indicates that stokvel is a common ...
As such, public schools are meant to align their policies with the rule of the law. Particularly, section 10 (1) of South African Schools Act, 84 1996 (hereafter SASA) respectfully prohibits the administration of corporal punishment directed at a learner in public schools. The subsequent ...
Discourses of the policy of educational decen- tralisation in South Africa since 1994: An examination of the South African Schools Act. Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 29(2), 141-152.Sayed, Y. (1999) `Discourses of the policy of educational decentralisation in South Africa since...
The South African Schools Act, No. 84 of 1996 (SASA), provides parents with opportunities to serve on the governing bodies of public schools. In this context, members of school governing bodies may hold unique sets of expectations, which may influence the type of education to which a school...