Participation process for BELA Bill scheduled until March 2023: Withdraw Bill sooner rather than later
19 April 2022
The progress made with the public participation process regarding the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA Bill) was reported to the parliamentary Portfolio Committee today.
The process has not yet commenced seeing as quotations for marketing are still outstanding. Nonetheless, public hearings have been scheduled until March 2023 and after that, the Bill must still be debated in all nine provincial legislatures.
Seeing as the Bill is already outdated, these costs must rather be saved until the Bill has been fundamentally revised.
The problems with the Bill are both practical and ideological in nature. Ideologically speaking, the ability to manage education is being taken out of the hands of communities and placed in the hands of officials.