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The law’s origins, however, preserved key apartheid-era features, including white parents’ rights over school admissions and language policies. The article analyzes how democratic principles produced tensions as the government amended SASA to manage parental control, engaging the positions surrounding the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA). The argument frames the debate as ongoing contestation over race and class domination in future schooling.","Special Issue  \nEducation and the Challenges for Democracy  \neducation policy analysis archives  \nA peer-reviewed, independent, open access, multilingual journal  \nArizona State University  \n\n| Volume 31 Number 105 | September 19 , 2023 | ISSN 1068-2341 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\nRace, Class, and the Democratic Project in Contemporary South African Education: Working and Reworking the Law  \nCrain Soudien  \nNelson Mandela University, University of Cape Town  \nSouth Africa  \nCitation: Soudien, C. (2023) . Race, class, and the democratic project in contemporary South African  \neducation: Working and reworking the law. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31(105) .  \n[https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.8017](https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.8017) This article is part of the special issue, Education and the Challenges for Democracy, edited by Fernando M. Reimers.  \nAbstract: Democratization of the South African education system was significantly advanced by the South African Schools Act (SASA) promulgated in 1996. SASA gave parents the power to direct the course and substance of their children’s education in important ways. The circumstances of its origination, however, left in place crucial features of the country’s apartheid education system. Central among these were white parent’s rights to determine their schools’admission and language policies. In this contribution I explore the tensions over democratic principles experienced by the South African government in correcting SASA to manage parents’control over these key school policies. I do so through a critical engagement with the positions that have emerged in the process currently underway to consider the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA) . I argue these positions represent a struggle in play over whether the future South African school system will be marked by ongoing and new forms of race and class domination.  \nKeywords: race; class; inequality; school policy; democratization in education; education laws; South Africa  \nRaza, clase y el proyecto democrático en la educación sudafricana contemporánea: Trabajando y reformulando la ley  \nResumen: La democratización del sistema educativo sudafricano avanzó significativamente gracias a la Ley de Escuelas Sudafricanas (SASA, por sus siglas en inglés) promulgada en 1996. SASA otorgó a los padres de familia un poder importante de dirigir el rumbo y el contenido de laeducación de sus hijos. Sin embargo, las circunstancias de su origen dejaron intactos aspectos fundamentales de sistema educativo que había creado el régimen de apartheid en el país. Entre estas, una de las características centrales era el derecho de los padres de familia blancos paradeterminar las políticas de admisión y de idioma de sus escuelas. En este articulo, exploro las tensiones en torno a los principios democráticos experimentados por el gobierno sudafricano al corregir SASA para gestionar el control de los padres de familia sobre estas políticas escolares clave. Lo hago a través de un análisis crítico de las posturas que han surgido en el proceso que actualmente se encuentra en marcha para considerar el Proyecto de Enmienda de las Leyes de Educación Básica (BELA, por sus siglas en inglés) . Sostengo que estas posturas representan una lucha en curso sobre si el futuro sistema escolar sudafricano estará marcado por formas persistentes y emergentes de dominación racial y de clase.  \nPalabras clave: raza; clase; desigualdad; política escolar; democratización en la educación; leyeseducativas; Sudáfrica  \nRaça, classe e o projeto democrático na educação sul-africana contemporânea: Formulando e reformulando a lei  \nResumo: A democratização do sistema educacional sul-africano foi significativamente avançadapelo Ato das Escolas Sul-Africanas (SASA), promulgado em 1996. O SASA deu aos pais o poderde direcionar o curso e o conteúdo da educação de seus filhos de maneiras importantes. 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