@equal_education

A movement striving for quality and equality in South Africa's education system. Every generation has its struggle! #FixOurSchools Legal support: @EELawCentre

 South Africa
equaleducation.org.za
Joined June 2010
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JOIN THE TEAM! 🖤💛✊🏾 Equal Education is hiring a Communications Manager to lead our communications strategy, media work, and digital platforms. If you are a strategic, proactive storyteller passionate about youth activism, education justice, and using communications to drive social change, this is for you! 🗓️ Closing date: 20 November 2026 Full vacancy details: equaleducation.s3.eu-central… Help us #BuildTheMovement for equal and quality education! #Vacancy #CommsJobs #NGOJobs
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[Pre-MTBPS OP-ED ] 📑✍️Our researcher Mahfouz Raffee asks: How will Godongwana’s mini-budget deliver for schools? R140bn national backlog. R72.3bn in EC alone. Yet EC has lost R1.3bn to budget cuts since 2015. Shifting funds away from schools that need it most is not fiscal discipline it's sidelining learners. Read it on The Education Desk: educationdesk.org/2026/10/19… #2026MTBPS
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[EC Waithood Action] First PSY Action 🖤💛✊🏾 43.8% youth unemployment. Millions of young people with no job, no education, no training. Government cuts education funding, goes silent on the R15 BILLION NSFAS shortfall, and abandons BEEI for 2027. This is betrayal. Enough is enough‼️ On 29 October 2026 @11:00, we march from Bisho Massacre Memorial to demand accountability. Our FIRST EC Post-School Youth Action - because our struggle doesn't end at matric. For jobs, for education, for our future. Come out in your numbers! #WaithoodAction #FundOurFutures #PSYAction
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Students were clearly not prioritised in the #2026MTBPS.The mini-budget provided no clarity on whether the R15 billion NSFAS shortfall will be filled. It cut funding for student housing infrastructure due to governance failures. Kunzima. #FundOurFuture
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📢 Daveyton, we are coming to you! Is your child facing challenges with school admissions, school fees, unfair discipline, disability support or other education-related issues? Join the Equal Education Law Centre Education Justice Ambassadors, in collaboration with @equal_education, for FREE legal advice and information about your education rights! 📍 Venue: Mbikwa Cindi Community Hall, Daveyton 📅 Date: 24 October 2026 ⏰ Time: 10:30am 📞 Contact: 061 853 1317 Parents, learners, teachers, SGB members and community members are all welcome. Bring any relevant school or Department of Education documents. Know your rights. Get advice. Take action! ✊🏾
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The #MTBPS2026 projects education spending to remain stagnant in real terms over the next three years. Spending on basic education continues to fall as a share of the budget, and unspent funds for school infrastructure have been removed from this year's budget. #FundOurFuture
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[Post MTBPS media statement] 📑✍️ Empty promises as bleak picture for education funding continues. 🔗: equaleducation.s3.eu-central… The MTBPS offers scarce relief for learners, cuts R306m from student housing and R735m from school infrastructure, and is silent on the R15bn NSFAS shortfall. Per-learner funding will decline, while 43.8% of young people are unemployed and 10m are NEET. We reject a budget that neglects the future of our country. #MTBPS2026 #FundOurFutures #StopAusterity #NoToAusterity #Budget2026 #EndBudgetCuts
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[4th Yoliswa Dwane Memorial Lecture] Today we gathered at UCT to honour the life and legacy of our late leader Yoliswa Dwane under the theme: "Accountability Beyond Courts: Strategies From The Ground." We were honoured to be joined by @Nomzamo_Zondo , Executive Director of SERI, who reminded us that accountability cannot live only in courtrooms it must be built, fought for and sustained on the ground, in communities, in schools, and in movements. Here a link to catch up on our live stream : youtube.com/live/cJRqGRQfIIQ… #YoliswaDwaneMemorialLecture #EqualEducation
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[WATCH] Our General Secretary Mothlabane in Cape Town today: "We reject a budget that has continued to deprive the education of our learners." As Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers the MTBPS in Parliament, we are in the streets demanding a People's Budget. In 2026, learners are still learning in overcrowded classes, still using pit toilets, and still walking long dangerous roads to school. The education budget is still not enough. We are demanding: -An increase in funding per learner -An increase in school infrastructure budget for all Provinces. #FundOurFutures #StopAusterity #NoToAusterity #Budget2026 #EndBudgetCuts
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[HAPPENING NOW] 📌 As Minister @EnochGodongwana delivers the MTBPS, Equal Education and other organisations are gathered outside Parliament, standing united against austerity and budget cuts to social spending. We demand a People’s Budget that responds to the needs of South Africans. #FundOurFutures #StopAusterity #NoToAusterity #Budget2026 #EndBudgetCuts
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[MTBPS2026] Education shouldn't be a financial death sentence. We are calling on the Minister of Finance @EGodongwana odongwana and the Minister of Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela to act now: -Fully fund higher education -Clear the crushing student debt crisis -Completely fix and fund NSFAS Our future cannot wait. 🎓 #FundOurFuture #FixNSFAS #ClearStudentDebt
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[MTBPS2026] 💰END WAITHOOD NOW! Protect and expand PEPs! Protect and expand the BEEI! We call for multi-year funding and an extension of the duration of the BEEI! No more budget cuts on our future! #FundOurFuture #JobsForAll #MTBPS2026
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Join us tomorrow at 20:00 for a critical X Space panel discussion. We are breaking down what the coalition stands for and analyzing the public services we all rely on daily. We have an incredible lineup of activists, strategists and researchers joining the conversation.
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[MTBPS2026] 🫰Basic education is an immediately realisable right. It needs to be funded. Tomorrow, learners are calling on the finance minister to heed their calls. #FundOurFuture #MTBPS2026
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