: ‘‘The significance of education, in particular basic education, for individual and societal development in our democratic dispensation in the light of the legacy of apartheid, cannot be overlooked … [B]asic education is an important socioeconomic right directed, among other things, at promoting and developing a child’s personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to his or her fullest potential.
While the unqualified right to a basic education has not been legally contested, it is still not entirely clear what is included when one speaks about a “basic education”. The Constitution itself does not provide an explication of this right which specifies how it is to be realised and what conditions would need to be met for this right to be said to have been realised or not.
One of the minimum “core” outcomes with respect to the right to a basic education is that a child must be able to read and write with understanding at a basic level by the age of 10. Put differently, this fundamental skill is one of the tools by means of which the constitutional promise is to be fulfilled. Unless and until the child is educated to the requisite minimum level, the constitutional promise remains unfulfilled.
What the education space needs is a clearly articulated, evidence-based, and measurable definition of what it means to “read and write, with understanding, at a basic level”. Although it is clear that the right to a basic education envisaged in the Constitution goes well beyond merely the ability to read and write, it is equally clear that if a child is denied this most basic skill they have at the same time, also been denied the right to a basic education.in September last year.
*This opinion piece contains extracts from a position paper developed by the South African Human Rights Commission in collaboration with experts in the fields of law, education; economics, disability and literacy.
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