Operation Dudula is campaigning to remove migrant children from schools in Diepsloot, Johannesburg, activist groups advocating for quality and equality in South Africa’s education system said on Monday.
The organisations said adults marching through the streets, entering school premises and classrooms, and asking for innocent children to be removed from school based on their nationality, is an all-time low for our country
“Actions of this nature not only pit nationals against migrant children and foster othering, but they also amount to bullying and intimidation. We strongly condemn this thinking and behaviour and stand firmly in solidarity with all migrant children.” The EE and EELC said the right to basic education is a human right that is extended to all who live in SA. This means that all children in the country, regardless of where they come from and what their documentation status is, have an equal right to education.
“Operation Dudula’s ideas — whether carried out or not — support and promote discrimination and violence and foster an atmosphere in which xenophobia can flourish. The hostile environment that it creates also means that migrant children — and even other children who are at risk of discrimination — will live and learn in fear.”
The groups urgently called the department of basic education to publicly condemn Operation Dudula’s campaigns and to reiterate the right of migrant children, regardless of their documentation status, to access schooling in SA.
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