Who is Equal Education (2022)

Equal Education Registered S18A(1) public benefit organisation (PBO) Exemption number 930 027 221 Registered non-profit organisation (NPO) Registration number 068-288-NPO

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Jesi Townsend First published in January 2022

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CONTENTS 04 Who is Equal Education?

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Equal Education’s values

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Letters from Equal Education members

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How do we organise?

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Why does Equal Education exist?

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Your journey through Equal Education

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Equal Education’s internal democracy

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Equal Education’s campaigns

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The Charter for an Equal Education

22 Membership donations

23 Safeguarding

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EQUAL EDUCATION | WHO ARE WE?

who is EQUAL EDUCATION? Equal Education is a membership-based, democratic movement of learners, post-school youths, parents, teachers and community members. Our main objective is to work towards achieving quality and equality in the South African education system. The tools that we use for this to be realised are mainly mobilisation and public action, which are supported by research and policy analysis. Our approach is to win gains politically rather than through the courts, but when it is necessary, we use legal processes to contribute to a strong civil society that holds government, private interests and individuals accountable.

Equal Education’s core membership base is high school learners, known as Equalisers, who actively advocate for quality education across five provinces - Eastern Cape, Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape and Gauteng.

I love being part of a social movement where I am part of the struggle for a more equal education system, and the struggle for social justice when it comes to gender, race, and class.

How do you do that?

How do I get involved?

Come to our Youth Group once a week. You can meet other Equalisers from schools in your community. We will learn about Equal Education, about history and politics, about the economy, and about our rights. We will strategise on how to bring change to education and society, through Equal Education!

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EQUAL EDUCATION’S VALUES What values must I have to be an Equal Education member?

A commitment to making to Equal Education spaces welcoming and safe for all, and to speaking up when we see that our Comrades are behaving themselves in an unacceptable way.

Holding our leaders and ourselves accountable (leading by example).

A commitment to lifelong learning (and unlearning). Respecting and developing our schools and other educational institutions.

A commitment to the struggle for equality in society, in our communities and in the world, particularly in education - through peaceful activism supported by research evidence.

A commitment to the struggle for equality in society, in our communities and in the world, particularly in education through peaceful activism supported by research evidence.

Being defenders of human rights, and working to eliminate direct and indirect discrimination and inequality based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age or any other status.

Building honesty and support between one another.

Using the resources of the movement with care.

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EQUAL EDUCATION | WHO ARE WE?

LETTERS FROM MEMBERS

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I saw an opportunity to take a stand and also make my voice heard” - Sisipho Mila, Western Cape

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HOW DO WE ORGANISE? In-School Meetings An In-School Meeting (ISM) is a space in which Equalisers meet within their schools to speak about the problems that directly affect them, their schools and their communities. Equalisers also strategise on what actions to take to fix those problems.

youth groups Youth Groups are spaces in which Equalisers from different schools within an area get together to speak about the problems and strategies raised at ISMs, they plot and plan the building of campaigns and also how to tackle complex problems of inequality in society.

teach-ins (political schools) Teach-ins are spaces where Equalisers within a province get together, for educational seminars on political issues. Teach-ins are focused on a specific political topic and aim to equip members of Equal Education with the tools to understand how to fight against the injustices that confront society.

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WHY DOES equal education exist?

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2008

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1 The very first Equal Education Youth Group meeting was held in Khayelitsha. Only seven learners arrived at that first meeting, but by the end of 2008 we had successfully campaigned to have 500 broken windows fixed at Luhlaza High School in Khayelitsha.

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On Human Rights Day, 10 000 learners and Equal Education supporters marched to Parliament to demand a fully functional library for every school in South Africa.

We started a campaign to encourage learners to be at school on time. The campaign helped to dramatically decrease late-coming in schools across the Western Cape.

Equal Education led another march to Parliament on Human Rights Day. This time over 20 000 learners, parents and teachers marched to demand that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga adopt Minimum Uniform Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure.

Also in 2011, we held a People’s Summit for Quality Education, and launched a campaign to adopt a Charter to guide society in realising a progressive and decolonised education system.

At our first national Congress, we

We opened a second office in

elected new leadership and adopted a new constitution, making our movement democratic. We started working in the Eastern Cape, Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. The

Tembisa, Gauteng. A provincial sanitation campaign started, with

Legal Resources Centre (LRC), on behalf of EE and two Eastern Cape schools, filed a legal application in the Bhisho High Court against Minister Motshekga, all nine MECs for Education and the Minister of Finance to force government to adopt the Minimum Uniform Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure.

for South Africa: Basic Education Minister Motshekga finally signed the Minimum Uniform Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure into law. For the first time ever it became the law that every school must have basics such as water, electricity, decent toilets and enough classrooms.

Equalisers auditing toilets at high schools. On Friday 29 November 2013, something historic happened

9 There is massive inequality in our education in South Africa. Apartheid created a deeply divided system, and the democratic government is not doing all that it can to provide the public school system with what learners and teachers need for a quality education. This is one of the greatest barriers to equality, dignity and freedom in South Africa. Problems in many township and rural schools include overcrowded classrooms, violence, and not having safe and decent toilets, or a reliable supply of water, or scholar transport, or enough properly qualified teachers.

Equalisers are empowered young people, conscientised about what is legally and morally owed to them, who have mobilised in their schools and communities to secure many victories - victories that mean change for specific learners and schools, and victories that positively impact all learners and schools in South Africa.

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We held our second national Congress.

In 2015 our campaign victories included getting governmentsubsidised buses for three schools in Nquthu in northern KZN and the publication of the National Learner Transport Policy.

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2018

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We held a Teaching and Learning

In November, represented by

Summit in Johannesburg, where a more extensive draft of our Charter for an Equal Education was finalised - it included the voices of ordinary citizens, activists, parents, and

the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), we secured a huge victory in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, when we got scholar transport for 12 schools

teachers, as well as Equalisers.

in Nquthu in northern KwaZuluNatal.

We held our third national Congress, and passed resolutions that included that members must be educated on patriarchy, gender, and sexual orientation.

Judgment was delivered in our #FixTheNorms court case, which affirmed that all organs of government are collectively responsible for implementing the Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure. Our other victories included repairs of Gauteng school toilets, and President Cyril Ramaphosa announcing school safety as a government priority.

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Following five years of consistent effort by Equal Education Eastern Cape members, construction of the new Vukile Tshwete Secondary finally started. The old building consisted of wood structures, and plain pit latrines for learners.

Also in 2019, we ensured that the ANC took back its nomination of Zukisa Faku - a convicted fraudster - as chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Basic Education.

In the year of the outbreak of COVID-19, our victories included getting the Department of Basic Education to restart the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) for over nine million learners under the national lockdown, and getting the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education (KZNDoE) to release a draft scholar transport policy for public comment.

YOUR JOURNEY THROUGH

EQUAL EDUCATION Equal education offers members of our movement - learners, post-school youths and parents political education and organising skills that activate and nurture their activism.

Equaliser An Equaliser is a high school learner who attends Equal Education Youth Groups and In-School Meetings

An Equaliser member An Equaliser can sign up as a member of Equal Education, which qualifies them to run for positions of leadership, and to attend national Congress

EQUALISER LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE MEMBER

Post-School Youth After finishing school, former Equalisers can be involved in our movement in many ways

MEMBER OF YOUTH PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE COMMUNITY LEADER (STAFF INTERNSHIP) FACILITATOR (VOLUNTEER) UNIVERSITY BRANCH MEMBER ORGANISER (STAFF)

Parent members and community members Parents and guardians of school-going children, and other community members concerned about poor quality education

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EQUAL EDUCATION’S

INTERNAL DEMOCRACY

Members

The most important structure of our movement is its members!

Members decide on our organisation’s priorities at a national Congress, which is held every three years. This Congress elects our movement’s leadership, who are assisted by the staff of the movement.

The members of Equal Education are Equalisers (high school learners), post-school youths, parents and community activists who send delegates to Congress.

Secretariat The Secretariat is the executive committee of the National Council. The task of the Secretariat is to guide, support and direct the policy and strategy of Equal Education between meetings of the National Council.

National Council As a social movement, Equal Education is governed by a democratically elected National Council. The National Council is the highest decision-making body of our movement (between Congresses). It is elected every three years at national Congress, and consists of representatives from all the branches of Equal Education (Equalisers, post-school youths, parents, staff) and up to five members who are co-opted for their expertise and experience.

Provinces The organising regions of Equal Education that are tasked with mobilising members around various campaigns.

national organising Limpopo

The National Council governs all the affairs of the movement, is led by the Secretariat and is assisted by the management team of Equal Education. The powers and duties of the National Council are in the Equal Education Constitution.

KwaZulu-Natal

National office Finance Fundraising Operations: Human resources and administration

Research Internal Education and Training Unit (IETU)

Communications

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EQUAL EDUCATION | WHO ARE WE?

EQUAL EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS School infrastructure campaign #FixOurSchools We have been campaigning for decent school infrastructure since 2008. An important focus of our school infrastructure campaign was to ensure that government publishes a law that sets minimum requirements for school infrastructure.

In 2013, we won a historic victory in our school infrastructure campaign, when Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga published the Regulations relating to Minimum Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure. For the first time, South Africa now had a law that set out what basic infrastructure a school must have, with deadlines by when government must deliver such infrastructure to schools.

However, we were concerned with unacceptable loopholes in the Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure that were adopted by Minister Motshekga, that would allow the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to indefinitely delay fixing schools. The focus of our infrastructure campaign then shifted towards closing these loopholes through the #FixTheNorms court case. In 2018, a full ten years after we started campaigning for better school infrastructure, the Bhisho High Court found entirely in our favour in the #FixTheNorms case and instructed the DBE to change the Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure where necessary.

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Since then, the focus of our infrastructure campaign has been on the implementation of the Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure, and ensuring that government meets the deadlines set out in the law.

Since 2013, when we got Minister Motshekga to sign the Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure into law, government has budgeted billions of rands for school infrastructure as thousands of schools have received water, electricity and decent toilets, and hundreds of schools made of inappropriate materials, such as mud and asbestos, have been replaced. But government is very far behind in meeting its own targets!

The progress is too slow!

The DBE and the provincial education departments could have been much closer to fulfilling their legal, political and moral duty, but they have not shown the political will to ensure that our schools are fixed with the urgency that is needed.

Every year, the DBE publishes a report with information on the state of infrastructure in all schools in South Africa - the National Education Infrastructure Management System (NEIMS) report.

According to the 2021 NEIMS report:

2,130

schools

HAVE PLAIN PIT LATRINES AS THE ONLY FORM OF TOILETS

5,836 90

schools

SCHOOLS

DO NOT HAVE

have an unreliable water supply

ELECTRICITY

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70% OF SCHOOLS DO NOT

HAVE LIBRARIES

SCHOOLS

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of schools do not have laboratories

EQUAL EDUCATION | WHO ARE WE?

limpopo school infrastructure campaign #FixOurSchools

In 2014, 5-year-old Michael Komape fell into and drowned in a pit toilet at Mahlodumela Primary School in Limpopo. Michael’s family fought painfully, for many years, to get justice.

In 2015, his mother, father and siblings represented by SECTION27 lawyers - sued the Department of Basic Education (DBE), the Limpopo Department of Education (LDOE) and his school for failing Michael while he was under their care and supervision.

Equal Education - represented by the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) - intervened in the court case as amicus curiae (a friend of the court), to support the Komape family’s claim. Our submission to the Polokwane High Court was to explain the history of our campaign for the adoption of the Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure - to show the knowledge that government had, or should have had, of the crisis of unsafe school infrastructure.

In 2017, we conducted school visits in GaMashashane in Limpopo, and found that many more school toilets were dangerous and unusable. The findings from the 18 schools that we audited, which are in our report Dikolo tša go hloka seriti include that:

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of the schools had PIT LATRINES as their only form of sanitation; and schools had no access to water at all.

In 2019, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) overturned the decision of the Polokwane High Court, which refused to award financial compensation to the Komape family for their emotional shock and grief.

Despite Limpopo Education MEC Polly Boshielo promising that plain pit toilets would be eradicated in the 2020 financial year, there were still 472 schools with plain pit toilets as their only form of sanitation, according to the DBE’s own data (the 2020 National Education Infrastructure Management System).

In 2021, as part of our school infrastructure campaign, we returned to the Polokwane High Court to make submissions for the second part of the court case, to get government to fix the toilets in all the schools in Limpopo.

The court ruled that the plan of the Minister of Basic Education (DBE) and the Limpopo Department of Education (LDoE), to take 14 years to get rid of pit toilets in Limpopo schools, is unconstitutional and fails to meet the requirements of the structural order* that was granted by the court in 2018.

The judgment ordered that the new plan includes: •

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A list of all the schools with plain pit toilets in Limpopo (including schools with only plain pit toilets, schools with plain pit toilets as well as other forms of sanitation, and schools with unused plain pit toilets (that are not yet demolished); A new deadline (and detailed justification for this deadline) for getting rid of plain pit toilets in all Limpopo schools; and A detailed budget for the implementation of this plan (including steps taken to secure more money).

*A structural order: When the court continues to have oversight over how its order is carried out (implemented), so it can ensure that its order is properly carried out (is complied with).

gauteng school infrastructure campaign #FixOurSchools #NoSpaceForUs Equal Education Gauteng members embarked on a sanitation campaign, following a survey of 11 schools in Tembisa in 2013, which showed that the state of school toilets was very poor. The Gauteng Education MEC responded to our advocacy by spending R15 million on upgrading the toilets at all schools in Tembisa, spending R150 million on school toilets throughout the province, and prioritising the fixing of the 50 worst-off schools.

In 2018, we released our new report on the state of Gauteng school toilets - Breaking the Cycle

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- which shows that the toilets in all 38 schools that we then visited were repaired or renovated.

The work done included painting, fixing pipes, fixing ceilings, repairing windows, installing burglar bars, and replacing basins, doors, locks on doors, taps, toilet seats, and urinals.

Equal Education Gauteng members have also fought for the Gauteng Education Department to rebuild schools that are made from asbestos.

Next we are starting a campaign to address the severe overcrowding in Gauteng schools.

EQUAL EDUCATION | WHO ARE WE?

For our research on overcrowding, in 2019 and 2020 we visited schools in Etwatwa. We inspected classrooms and interviewed learners, teachers, principals and administrative staff. Overcrowding also affects the physical environment of classrooms and schools. Teachers told us they struggle to move around the classroom, and that infrastructure and furniture deteriorate quickly.

Overcrowding affects behaviour by making it impossible for teachers to give learners the attention they need, and it also has negative psychological effects - with teachers unable to cope with their workload, and learners feeling neglected and detached from school work.

The #NoSpaceForUs campaign was launched in November 2021. Our campaign aims to provide insight into what overcrowding is in a South African context, whether Gauteng schools are overcrowded, and what the causes and effects of overcrowding are. Our research report - No Space For Us: Understanding Overcrowding in Gauteng’s Schools - makes recommendations to reduce current overcrowding and prevent future overcrowding.

KwaZulu-Natal scholar transport campaign #LongWalkToSchool Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre have been working since 2014 to get learners in KwaZulu-Natal access to safe, reliable government-subsidised scholar transport.

The #LongWalkToSchool campaign has its roots in the experiences of learners attending schools in Nquthu in northern KwaZulu-Natal, who told us about how learners in the province must walk very long distances to school. Learners must cross rivers and hills, in severe heat or rain.

Learners who walk long distances to school are also vulnerable to theft and sexual assault.

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Our campaign for scholar transport - which has included many protest actions and a legal challenge in the Pietermaritzburg High Court - has succeeded in getting these vital victories:

In 2015, buses were provided by the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department to transport learners at three schools in Nquthu; In 2018, buses and taxis were provided by the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department to transport learners at 12 Nquthu schools; In 2017, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) made a public commitment to work with National Treasury to explore the introduction of a conditional grant to fund scholar transport; and In 2020, the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education released a draft scholar transport policy, for members of the public to give feedback on it. Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre sent a detailed submission on the draft policy to the department, pointing out serious flaws in it.

In 2021, we fought for a final version of the policy to be made public. And we succeeded in getting the final KwaZulu-Natal Learner Transport Policy released to us! We analysed the policy, and believe that the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport have at last applied themselves to the development of a policy that addresses the need for safe, reliable, government-subsidised learner transport across the province. A solid provincial policy is key for better planning, (including data collection and budgeting), and to ensuring proper implementation. We have appealed to the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department to publish the policy in the Government Gazette and on its website.

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eastern cape school infrastructure campaign #FixOurSchools The Eastern Cape has been at the centre of our school infrastructure campaign, as the province with the worst infrastructure backlogs.

A very important development in our campaign in the Eastern Cape was in 2016, when we visited 60 schools across seven districts in the province, investigating government’s compliance with the Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure. Our findings were published in our Planning to Fail report, report and showed how severe the infrastructure crisis is. In 2018, we visited seven of those 60 schools and found that there had been infrastructure upgrades at six out of the seven schools. The upgrades included new toilets, new classrooms, and being provided with electricity and piped water. The construction of an entirely new school was also finally finished.

The question of why the learners and the teachers at the 60 schools (mentioned above) had to suffer with such poor infrastructure, and why the government takes so long to fix schools throughout the province, led us to investigate the role that implementing agents play in poor service delivery. Implementing agents build schools on behalf of education departments.

Implementing agents can be State-owned enterprises or non-profit organisations. Getting education departments to blacklist implementing agents and building contractors who don’t do their jobs properly and waste government money, is one of the goals of our infrastructure campaign.

The victories of our school infrastructure campaign in the Eastern Cape are not limited to new infrastructure for individual schools. Our victories also impact the entire system - an example of this is that the Department of Basic Education has developed guidelines for the appointment of implementing agents. These guidelines help with ensuring that the right people, who can do the job and complete it on time, are building our schools.

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western cape school safety campaign #SafeSchools Equal Education Western Cape went about conducting a social audit in 2015. Working with partner organisations, we audited 244 schools serving 217,388 learners. The audit process involved interviewing school administrators, recording our physical observations of infrastructure at schools, and learners completing questionnaires about their schooling experience.

Some of the audit’s key findings were: Less than half (47%) of schools that we audited have a full-time security guard.

Corporal punishment takes place at 83% of schools that we audited.

Four out of five learners reported that teachers use sticks, batons, pipes, and other objects to hit them.

While 98% of schools that we audited had fences, 42% of schools had holes in their fences.

Learners reported incidences of sexual assault at 16% of schools that we audited.

We gave a copy of our report to President Cyril Ramaphosa, during a visit of his to Khayelitsha at the start of 2018. In September 2018, the Presidency announced school safety as one of its top priorities, and in October 2018 the Department of Basic Education held a Safety Summit to strategise on how to reduce school violence. Our #SafeSchools campaign also contributed to the Western Cape Education Department identifying school safety as a key priority.

In September 2018, Western Cape Premier Alan Winde announced an extensive safety plan for the Western Cape province, with a specific focus on reducing violence in schools. As part of this plan, Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer was mandated to improve school safety by upgrading school infrastructure and implementing programmes aimed at reducing violence on school grounds.

Our determined and persistent advocacy about the importance of funding, and for support for school-based committees and infrastructure such as fencing in order to create safe schools, has placed it firmly on the agenda of the Standing Committee on Education in the Western Cape in 2020. The committee is the oversight committee for education in the province. Our work has directly informed the questions that members of the provincial legislature put forward to the Western Cape Education Department. Those questions include the budget allocated to safety and security, and the importance of safety training for teachers at schools.

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EQUAL EDUCATION | WHO ARE WE?

PROGRESSIVE LEARNERS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, EDUCATION ACTIVISTS, STUDENTS AND TRADE UNIONISTS ALL OVER SOUTH AFRICA

NOTING THAT THE SOUTH AFRICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM: Remains grossly unequal, providing inferior education to black and working class communities while providing elite education to white and wealthy communities that further entrenches and deepens societal oppression across race, class and gender; MOTIVATED BY OUR COLLECTIVE AND LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR: An education system that is truly emancipatory, that values creativity and knowledge for their own sake, and that contributes to the realisation of the aspirations and material needs of our people; An education system that eradicates, rather than entrenches, the intersecting violence and inequality inflicted upon the oppressed, including Black people, women and LGBTQIA+ people who have resisted centuries of slavery, settler colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and racial capitalism; Grassroots community movements that provide spaces for young people to continue to radically imagine and shape the form and function of education as part of a democratic struggle for a free and equal world; The true liberation of our communities, and communities throughout the global South, from the shackles of any form of imperialism, in which we can safely and creatively imagine and realise new ways of organising ourselves to determine new futures based upon our own needs and those of our fellow human beings across the globe, RECOGNISING THE WORKER, STUDENT AND LEARNER PROTESTS OF 2015, UNPRECEDENTED SINCE THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID

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Emancipatory: that makes free Entrenches: to make deeper Imperialism: a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force Secular: non-religious White supremacy: a socio-political and economic system in which whites control power and material resources, in which conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-white subordination are reenacted daily across a broad variety of institutions and social settings Racial capitalism: the process of deriving social and economic value from the racial identity of another person Capitalism: an economic system in which products are produced and distributed for profit using privately owned capital goods and wage labour Patriarchy: a political-social system that insists that males are inherently dominating, superior, that especially females are week, and that males have the right to dominate and rule over the weak and to maintain that dominance through various forms of psychological terrorism and violence Settler colonialism: is based on occupation and the elimination of the native population, while colonialism is primarily about conquest.

Settler colonialism is a structure rather than an event. In this sense, settler colonialism does not really ever “end.

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SAFEGUARDINg

reporting misconduct Equalisers, you are encouraged to report misconduct that you have experienced or that you have witnessed, to a staff member or Facilitator that you trust. Equal Education staff and Facilitators must report misconduct that they witness or are informed of. The EE Safeguarding Policy explains how you can carefully and confidentially report misconduct, to the people who are listed in the policy. The Safeguarding Policy should be provided to you at the start of every year, and it is available on the Equal Education website. You may also ask a Facilitator or staff member to give you a printed copy, at any time.

Phone 0800 117 111 or SMS 33490 to report wrongdoing, anonymously.

Counselling services Free counselling, that is available 24 hours a day for immediate support, is accessible through:

LifeLine: 011 422 4242 OR 0861 322 322 Rape Crisis: 021 447 9762 Childline: 0800 123 321