In 2017 the education sector reached a crossroad that will determine the future of education for the next decades. At the start of the school year tens of thousands of learners in Gauteng and Western Cape could not be placed in public schools. In the last quarter the state proposed new legislation to reduce the powers of School Governing Bodies (SGB’s) of public schools and to bring mainly unregulated homeschooling under...

On 27 March 2017, Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi, said there's a sudden increase in home schooling in the province, which needs to be reviewed. The reasons that he gives for this sudden increase is that parents do not want their children to integrate with broader society and mix with other children and that parents want to replace teachers. Since no reliable source of statistics on homeschooling exists, it’s not possible...