Quote of the week
Universal adult suffrage on a common voters roll is one of the foundational values of our entire constitutional order. The achievement of the franchise has historically been important both for the acquisition of the rights of full and effective citizenship by all South Africans regardless of race, and for the accomplishment of an all-embracing nationhood. The universality of the franchise is important not only for nationhood and democracy. The vote of each and every citizen is a badge of dignity and of personhood. Quite literally, it says that everybody counts. In a country of great disparities of wealth and power it declares that whoever we are, whether rich or poor, exalted or disgraced, we all belong to the same democratic South African nation; that our destinies are intertwined in a single interactive polity.
August and Another v Electoral Commission and Others (CCT8/99) [1999] ZACC 3
Call for endorsements: Support equal education
CALL FOR ENDORSEMENTS!
SUPPORT EQUAL EDUCATION’S CAMPAIGN FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES!
SUPPORT THIS AS A STEP TOWARDS A MOVEMENT FOR QUALITY AND EQUAL EDUCATION FOR ALL!
Please see the attached memorandum.
We are calling for endorsements from organizations, schools, universities, student societies, youth movements, newspapers, and clubs. All organs of civil society are invited to endorse this memorandum and Equal Education’s Campaign for School Libraries.*
International organizations, schools and civil society can also endorse. Local and international endorsements will be kept on separate lists.
Please fax your endorsement to 086 601 0666 or e-mail it toinfo@equaleducation.org.za ASAP!
This memorandum will be handed over to government at marches in:
– Cape Town 21 March 2010 071 118 4662
– Pretoria-Tshwane 26 March 2010 083 407 6047
– Polokwane 30 March 2010 072 293 8201
Over 15,000 people are expected at the above events.
Over 50,000 people have already signed the individual petition.
Please DONATE to Equal Education today! We need your support!
http://www.equaleducation.org.za/donate/donate-to-ee
With thanks from the whole Equal Education team.
