During 1986 the situation in black schools was precarious in most parts of SA. Teachers and learners of Phehelleng Secondary School in the Orange Free State were harassed, assaulted and intimidated by the South African Police. A Thlobelo, a teacher, was targetted and kept from his duties. The LRC succeeded in obtaining an interim interdict against this police harassment. However, the matter of a final interdict was not pursued as the situation calmed down. In June 1987 teachers took learners from Phehelleng Secondary School to Parys and allegedly incited them to take part in school boycotts and other acts of civil disobedience. One of the accused teachers was A Thlobelo. There is correspondence relating to this detention, and interventions to visit him and secure his release.

The New National Party of South Africa (NNP) contested the 1999 national and provincial elections, which was dismissed by a jedgement of the cape of Good Hope High Court. The NNP then appealed the judgement, which was dismissed.

In May 1990, 13 teachers at Oukasie were suspended by the Department of Education and Training for allegedly disrupting a meeting of principals called by the Department of Education and Training for the Northern Transvaal area. In sympathy, all the teachers (144 of them) stopped working. The crisis threatened to spill over into mass action. The Department of Education and Training discharged them, but at a meeting on 6 June 1990 it was decided that they should recommence teaching, which they did. The Department of Education and Training directed the teachers to reapply for their positions. Most did, but none received salaries. The LRC was consulted to negotiate an agreement. With the assistance of an external consultant to the Minister of Education, this was done. However, the Department of Education and Training kept undermining these efforts. Teachers who had not reapplied were either dismissed or suspended. It was then agreed that the dismissed teachers would be rehired, while the last correspondence in the file shows that the suspended teachers had still not been satisfactorily dealt with.

The LRC facilitated negotiations between the Bakubung Tribe and the Department of Education and Training regarding the educational needs of the people in the Mathopestad area. The schools in the area only went up to standard 7. It was urgently requested that facilities be made available to increase the capacity of the schools to accommodate standard 8 learners. At first the Department of Education and Training did not respond as the schools were administered by Bophutatswanan authorities. This was followed by a dispute regarding ownership of the land on which new classrooms could be built. Resolution of these issues resulted in the erection of extra classrooms at Mathopestad. Also see 1.19.1.1. Land rights.

In July 1982, some 1800 students were expelled from the University of Fort Hare. This followed demonstrations and class boycotts because the students did not have electricity in their rooms and in protest had destroyed some decorative lighting on the campus. The LRC tried to arrange for a meeting between the Minister of Education and the Parents' Committee of the expelled students. The minister declined, stating that the university did not fall under his control. It appears that the expulsions were challenged in court, but the file is incomplete in this regard. It is unclear how the matter was resolved. Contains press clippings.

Three hundred and forty four final year students at Bonamello Teachers Training College in Qwa Qwa were expelled following a three day boycott expressing solidarity with other students who had been expelled because they had failed certain exams. The LRC made representation to the Qwaqwa Minister of Education.