SPATIAL APARTHEID TRAP: Why SA parents are faking addresses to flee failing schools

2026-03-12 - 09:44

Recent data reveal that more than 50% of applications in some high-demand feeder zones contain fraudulent address information as parents bypass the law to escape dysfunctional township schools. While the Bela Act threatens jail for these ‘admissions fugitives’, education activists argue that the real crime is a system of spatial apartheid that continues to trap the poor in broken schools.