IN 2018‚ Gauteng schools will no longer be able to use apartheid-era zoning in enrolling learners.That is according to Gauteng MEC for education Panyaza Lesufi‚ who on Monday gave the media an update on issues the department has dealt with in recent months.In a Constitutional Court ruling in May‚ Lesufi was given a year to scrap default feeder zones for Gauteng schools.Currently a child falls into a school’s feeder zone if the child’s home or parents’ place of work is within a 5km radius of the school‚ under a default regime.The court had said the default zones were transitional and should be finalised by Lesufi through proper consultation with relevant stakeholders.Equal Education‚ who joined the case as an amicus curiae — or friend of the court — had said the default 5km rule was unconstitutional as it allowed apartheid geography to triumph.The department has now created a task team to develop proposals for a new feeder zone policy‚ after consulting school governing bodies.The tas...
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