Faranaaz Veriava is a lawyer based at SECTION27 that is a public interest organisation that focuses on health and education rights. She has a BA LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and a LLM in human rights and constitutional practice from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. Her doctoral research explores the influence of social movements, the legislature, executive and courts on the development of the normative content of the right to basic education as an unqualified socio-economic right.
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Improving Legal Literacy in the Struggle for the Right to Education
On 15 February 2017, a partnership of civil society organisations that have been involved in rights-based struggles for access to a quality basic education launched a Basic Education Rights Handbook.
The initiative has been led by ...
Textbook Provision for Learners in South Africa: Supreme Court of Appeal Judgment in the BEFA Case
In December 2015, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (“SCA”) in the case of Minister of Basic Education and Others v Basic Education for All and Others (the “BEFA” case) declared that section 29(1)(a) of the South African ...
South African Supreme Court of Appeal Set to Hear the Limpopo Textbooks Case
On 24 November 2015, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal will hear the appeal in what is widely referred to as the 'Limpopo textbooks case'. The case will, in all likelihood, be heard sometime in 2016 by the Constitutional Court ...
