After home education was legalised in 1996, it has grown exponentially for about 20 years. In this period it has made a difference in the lives of thousands of families. Children could develop their personality in a safe environment and receive an education that was adapted to their individual needs. In this period there were a few attempts by the state to interfere in home education, but the mere existence of...

In 2017 the education sector reached a crossroad that will determine the future of education for the next decades. At the start of the school year tens of thousands of learners in Gauteng and Western Cape could not be placed in public schools. In the last quarter the state proposed new legislation to reduce the powers of School Governing Bodies (SGB’s) of public schools and to bring mainly unregulated homeschooling under...