Twenty-twenty-four was momentous for the education sector.
After seven years of development, the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act has now ushered in the most comprehensive and significant changes to the regulation of the basic education sector since 1996. As the country and the education sector undergoes these policy and political changes, Zero Dropout Campaign commissioned a nation-wide public opinion survey on the state of basic education and school dropout in South Africa.
Some of the findings of that survey are presented in this report and confirm our argument that policy changes alone are not enough; we also need to facilitate national ownership of the problem by giving parents, educators, and learners the tools they need to implement solutions.