Cape Town – The Centre for Child Law is concerned that migrant learners are being deliberately sidelined, and claims that, according to article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to education.
The centre says that provincial education departments have battled to place some migrant pupils in schools for 2023.
This follows after Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie said children of undocumented foreigners should not be placed in public schools ahead of those born to South African parents.
Speaking to Newzroom Afrika, Liesel Muller, a senior attorney at the Centre for Child Law, said the Constitution of South Africa was clear that everyone was…
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