The Know Your Constitution handbook sheds light on what the Constitution says, how its different parts work, and demonstrate the power it makes available to the people of South Africa. We aim to bring the Constitution to life through people’s stories and experiences.
S27 STORIES | From Gravel Roads to the Doors of Opportunity: A Triumph of Rights
In the rural stretches of the Limpopo Province, along gravel roads where opportunity often feels distant, 24 young learners from Burghersdorp Secondary School completed their National Senior Certificate examinations at the end of 2025.
S27 STORIES | When School Fees Close the Doors of Learning: A Grandmother’s Victory Against Socio-Economic Exclusion
The transition from primary to secondary school often brings new possibilities, hopes, and beginnings for a learner. In November of 2024, Zethu* received news that her granddaughter, Gugu*, had been provisionally accepted into the 2025 Grade 8 class at Hyde Park High School - a fee-paying public school in the leafy, affluent suburbs of Sandton, north of Johannesburg.
OP-ED | Record matric results demand real investment
Earlier this month, the class of 2025 delivered record matric results, gifting the country a moment of collective pride where young people’s stories are too often characterised by hardship.
RESOURCE | Your Right to Healthcare in South Africa
This guide explains what the South African Constitution guarantees and what health services you are entitled to. It is for everyone living in South Africa.
PUBLICATION | Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
This book focuses specifically on the sexual and reproductive health rights. It explains the legal framework that supports these rights, as well as the mechanisms available to protect individuals when their rights are violated.
PRESS STATEMENT | Civil society organisations welcome High Court ruling affirming the right to safe and unhindered access to healthcare
The Treatment Action Campaign, Doctors Without Borders and Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia – represented by SECTION27, welcome the judgment handed down today by the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, which orders the state to take immediate and decisive action to end the obstruction of access to public healthcare facilities in Gauteng.
PUBLICATION | SECTION27’s Contribution in Eradicating Pit Toilets in Limpopo Schools
In 2024, SECTION27 commissioned an evaluation to assess its contribution to the eradication of pit toilets and the improvement of school sanitation infrastructure in Limpopo public schools.
Acts of sexual violence continue to threaten the rights of many children across the country, infringing on their constitutionally protected rights to equality, privacy, dignity, safety and health.
The Basic Education Rights Handbook is a legal literacy tool that serves to empower communities, school governing bodies, principals, teachers and learners to understand education law and policy, to know when learners’ rights have been violated and what steps are required to protect learners’ rights.
SECTION27 uses the law through litigation, advocacy, legal literacy, research and community mobilisation to advance socio-economic rights, in particular the right to access health care services and the right to basic education.
