Supreme Court of Appeal strikes a blow for radical change in SA public schooling
Daily Maverick | 09.09.2026 05:51
An irony of public schooling in many parts of the world is that this potential wellspring of imagination and creativity is smothered by myriad bureaucratic constraints. For example, ordinary public schools in South Africa all follow the same composition of school governing bodies (SGBs), the same staff complement financed from the national purse and the same part of the curriculum to be covered each day. Principals and teachers are managed by a slew of “personnel administrative measures” and monitored by onerous compliance processes that take up a lot of time.
