Home educators fiercely oppose the Policy on Home Education (PHE), published in 2018, and the Basic Education Law Amendment (BELA) Bill that is currently being considered. It is assumed that national government is the driving force behind curbing of rights and freedoms of home educators. Closer inspection however reveals other driving forces. It started in the Western Cape The initiative to clamp down on home educators did not come from the...

The health crisis of 2020 caused fundamental paradigm shifts in education, creating new opportunities to realize the right to education of all South Africans. However, planned regulatory reforms are still designed to enforce the old and failed paradigms. The old paradigm According to the old paradigm education can only be provided through schools. That is why the SA Schools Act of 1996 attempts to realise the right to education through compulsory...