⚖️Pestalozzi Trust⚖️ 🚨BELA UPDATE - Minister confirms BELA Act NOT in force. ‼️Minster of Basic Education has confirmed in a letter to the Trust that BELA Act is not in force. ‼️BELA Act will come into force when the commencement date is determined in the Govt. Gazette. ‼️Follow up letters will be sent [...]
What Does The Law Say On Homeschooling? Sections 3 and 51 of the SA Schools Act, 84 of 1996, have a bearing on homeschooling. Also read more at this link under the section “Registration”. Section 3. Compulsory attendance. (1) Subject to this Act and any applicable provincial law, every parent must cause every learner for whom he or she [...]
Pestalozzi Trust commits R2.35m to fight BELA Bill The Trustees of the Pestalozzi Trust have pledged an initial amount of R2.35 million from the Trust’s capital fund to challenge the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill in court, should it be passed into law. A principal goal of the Pestalozzi Trust as set out [...]
RED ALERT National BELA Bill Written Submissions to NCOP Open The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) has officially invited written comments on the BELA Bill and you have until 19 January 2024 to send in your written submission. This is the last opportunity at the national level to submit written comments. After this, [...]
The Gauteng Association for Homeschooling appeared before Parliament this week on Tuesday, 29 November 2022. Our mission was simple, though not easy at all: to request the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education (the PCBE) to reconsider the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill provisions that pertain to home education. In June 2022, we submitted [...]
As I get to the front gate of my home, I see the two police officers arriving in their vehicle, asking if I am Mrs. Swart and if they may enter my gate. I knew in that moment, that my entire family was in trouble and my child’s future was at risk. I gracefully invited [...]
Attention: Mr L A Brown Dear Mrs B P Mbinqo-Gigaba, Chairperson: Portfolio Committee on Basic Education RE: BASIC EDUCATION LAWS AMMENDMENT BILL – Concerns about home education sections. The Gauteng Association for Homeschooling welcomes the opportunity to comment on the BELA Bill which is now before the Portfolio Committee of Basic Education. A. Introduction [...]
Red Alarm: Registrations Refused The Trust has for some time been aware of the developing problem in KwaZulu-Natal where learners are being refused registration for home education. It seems that the problem is now spreading to other provinces as well. At first these refusals related primarily (to the best of our knowledge, exclusively) to learners [...]
What is the Pestalozzi Trust? The Pestalozzi Trust is a registered public benefit organisation established in 1998 by a group of Christians to provide affordable legal defence and advocacy services to protect the rights and freedoms of all member families to educate their children at home according to their own religious and/or philosophical persuasions, pedagogical [...]
The Eastern Cape Home Schooling Association (ECHSA) have had the dream of creating a representative structure that would be able to bring the concerns of the homeschooling community straight to the ears of those who have the power to make a difference. In October last year, that long-held aspiration has come to fruition in SANHSA, [...]
