Jason Brickhill, director of litigation at Seri, remembers how Equal Education and the Legal Resources Centre built the school infrastructure norms and standards case.
and the relationship between activism, law, and social justice, at the event held at the University of Cape Town on 24 February.
Brickhill said that Equal Education stands out as an exceptionally difficult client — in the best way. “The Equal Education people on the case would engage in every detail, weigh up every strategy and debate. This made the work charged and stimulating, produced carefully crafted court papers, and coherent messaging inside and outside the courtroom.”
“Yoliswa played a leading role and she ultimately deposed to the founding affidavit on behalf of Equal Education. I remember her during that norms and standards time being direct, decisive, and straightforward.” “The founding affidavit painted a stark and detailed picture of the conditions of the schools. It was a devastating and unanswerable account of the conditions in which learning and teaching were taking place. Of mud school structures and missing roofs, unstable walls and classrooms without windows, of schools without water, electricity, toilets, libraries, laboratories, or fences,” he said.Brickhill said that the Minister agreed to everything Equal Education had asked for in their legal papers.
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