Where’s Sanele? comic book raises awareness that pupils without documentation must be allowed to attend school in South Africa. Photo: Legal Resource Centre
NEWSThe Legal Resource Centre (LRC) has derived a comic book from a Makhanda High Court judgment, which confirmed that undocumented migrant children have the right to education, irrespective of whether they have identity documents. The three-year legal battle originated from a 2016 circular disseminated by the Eastern Cape department of basic education, which stated that children without valid identity documents, asylum and permit numbers cannot receive funded resources, such as textbooks, desks and nutritional…