Health and education
AS per chapter 2 of the Bill of Rights, every South African has the right to life and freedom and security of the person.
Health care, food, water and social security:
(1) Everyone has the right to have access to:
(a) Health care services, including reproductive health care;
(b) Sufficient food and water; and
(c) Social security, including, if they are unable to support themselves and their dependants, appropriate social assistance.
(2) The state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of each of these rights.
(3) No one may be refused emergency medical treatment.
Education:
(1) Everyone has the right:
(a) To a basic education, including adult basic education; and
(b) To further education, which the state, through reasonable measures, must make progressively available and accessible.
(2) Everyone has the right to receive education in the of ficial language or languages of their choice in public educational institutions where that education is reasonably practicable. In order to ensure the effective access to, and implementation of, this right, the state must consider all reasonable educational alternatives, including single medium institutions, taking into account
(a) Equity;
(b) Practicability; and
(c) The need to redress the results of past racially discriminatory laws and practices.
(3) Everyone has the right to establish and maintain, at their own expense, independent educational institutions that
(a) Do not discriminate on the basis of race;
(b) Are registered with the state; and
(c) Maintain standards that are not inferior to standards at comparable public educational institutions.
(4) Subsection (3) does not preclude state subsidies for independent educational institutions.
