Chapter 2: Bill of Rights
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(i) are inappropriate for a person of that child’s age; or
(ii) place at risk the child’s well-being, education, physical or mental health
or spiritual, moral or social development;
(g) not to be detained except as a measure of last resort, in which case, in addition
to the rights a child enjoys under sections 12 and 35, the child may be detained
only for the shortest appropriate period of time, and has the right to be—
(i) kept separately from detained persons over the age of 18 years; and
(ii) treated in a manner, and kept in conditions, that take account of the
child’s age;
(h) to have a legal practitioner assigned to the child by the state, and at state
expense, in civil proceedings affecting the child, if substantial injustice would
otherwise result; and
(i) not to be used directly in armed conflict, and to be protected in times of armed
conflict.
A child’s best interests are of paramount importance in every matter concerning the
child.
In this section “child” means a person under the age of 18 years.
Education
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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.
Everyone has the right to receive education in the official 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.
Everyone has the right to establish and maintain, at their own expense,
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