...This essay addresses several reasons as to why is an understanding of the history of Schooling in South Africa important for teaching and learning today. Africans have always had their own formal educational system long before the invasion of Europeans in Africa (Hlatshwayo, 1658-1988, 28). The purpose of this system was to instill societal values and behavior, it was an inclusive system because all the society was involved in the education system. In 1658 the first type of European or western cultured school was opened in the Cape, in particular for young African slaves in order to teach them about Christianity and civilization (Hlatshwayo, 1658-1988, 28). The latter was the beginning of colonialism in the South African Schooling system. Nelson...
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...ranked South Africa’s quality of education 140th out of 144 which is lower than Lesotho and Swaziland. This causes us to think whether the state has or has not failed to provide quality education for its citizens. After the apartheid era South Africa had become a democracy. With the start of this democracy and the new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 there had been a transformation in South Africa’s education system. A transformation in the system was exactly what South Africa needed because of the previously destructive policies, legislation and practices implemented under the apartheid era which segregated black students and other races apart from whites. This caused blacks and other minority races to be disadvantaged because the whites were seen as the superior race which meant that the blacks and other racial minorities suffered severe educational,social and economic disadvantage. However the Constitution of 1996 and a COMPREHENSIVE number of education laws that have been applied have been transforming the South African educational system at all levels. Another example is the South African Schools Act 84 of 1996 which provides for a uniform system for the organisation, governance and funding for all schools in the country. The purpose of the Act is to provide high quality of education aswell as addressing past injustices. The government’s plan for educational reform is also included in this act. The Act provides for the following: compulsory education for learners...
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...Education: A crisis not to be ignored Introduction South Africa, a country riddled with political turmoil faces many problems but one that has become persistently relevant over recent years is our struggling education system. Education is a crucial part of society and is a key factor in taking a country’s inexperienced youth and aiding them in becoming experienced working class citizens. When a country faces an education crisis the youth of the country lose out on this crucial stage of development and face being unprepared for the challenges they may face. Often youth in this situation battle to find employment after school. The education system woes are hardened by the fact that a large portion of the government budget goes towards building and developing this sector, whilst this seems to reflect a positive outlook for education there is a shocking conclusion. South Africa puts more money towards its education system in comparison to other developing nations, as...
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...South Africa: Stuck in the Middle? | 2014 | 1. Why is South Africa stuck in the middle? 2. Please find at least three problems to answer the first question. 3. Give your opinion for solving each of the problems mentioned in second answer. | | Contents Africa is experiencing extraordinary growth 2 Challenges 2 Challenge #1 Education 2 Challenge #2 Unemployment 3 Challenge #3 South Africa's growth path is highly resource intensive and hence unsustainable 4 Solutions 4 Solution # 1 - Improve education form the bottom up 4 Solution # 2 – Address unemployment from a new angle and become More attractive to Global business and entrepreneurship 6 Solution # 3 - Reduce the need for commodities and Invest in technology and entrepreneurship 8 Conclusion 8 Africa is experiencing extraordinary growth, In fact this decade has seen more growth for Africa than any other time in history making it six in the world’s 10 rising economy’s. Life expectancy is improving and HIV rates are down almost 30%. Malaria is also down and despite SA having the highest concentration of HIV in the world, African children born today are increasing their life expectancy one year for every three years over the last a decade. Education rates are increasing 25%, and more young educated man are entering the South African workforce. Yet despite these growth factors South Africa, and the continent of Africa as a whole...
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...What explains the adaptation of the 1948 Apartheid law in South Africa? South Africa’s Apartheid was a political system founded in racial segregation. The National Party, the only governing party between the years 1948 to 1994, committed itself to oppressing the country’s people through racial legislation. What factor explains the adaptation of the Apartheid law in 1948? An Afrikaner (southern African ethnic group) minority ruled the population, enacting Apartheid once white supremacist leaders and racial segregation had become a central aspect of the South African policy after World War II. The Afrikaners had also formed some Broderbund organizations, developing and imposing ideology that helped in pushing the Apartheid agenda. Such ideology was officially administered in South Africa through the mandate of the League of Nations, later revoked in 1966 via the United Nations 2145 Resolutions (Barbarin, Oscar & Linda 2013, 221). The Great Depression 1929 resulted in a bad economic turn in South Africa, and saw many Afrikaner whites move to the city in search of jobs from previously settled rural areas. However, due to high taxes, native South African tribesmen had to work in the mines resulting in an increase in the number of black people in the manual labor workforce. Racial segregation itself began during the colonial period under the rule of the Dutch empire until the British appropriated the Cape of Good Hope in 1795 (Clark, Nancy...
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...Freedmen’s Aid Society. There were “a total of 2,441 men served as agents… only 900 were spread across the South.” Bureau agents faced a difficult task of accomplishing objectives set by the Bureau. These agents on a daily basis would deal with complaints and concerns dealing with African-American families and their personal matters, whites threatening them regarding African-Americans’ work and labor contracts, and African-Americans objecting to whites cheating them of their work at the end of a harvest year. In addition they set up schools, negotiated and oversaw labor contracts, and argued for African-Americans’ rights in law. Throughout the year they filed reports about schools, civil order, labor, and many other categories relating to programs that held the Bureau responsible. These agents were the backbone behind the Bureau that suffered from the amount of work and violent threats from whites. An example of Bureau agent attempting to make a difference occurred when agent...
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...independence. However, after gaining their independence, many nations were not totally free from their colonizers, which was the case of South Africa. South Africa had a difficult time during 1940 it was the beginning of a combat that completely changed and divided the country. The white minority in there invented the apartheid, to be in control of the economic and social-political system. Apartheid was a segregation that separates white people from non-white it was the official policy in that country. The impact that this segregation exerted in S.A, and eventually the world, continues to affect negatively influence the socioeconomic and educational rights of the people of the nation. Therefore, apartheid needs to be taught in schools throughout the world to prevent this type of tragedy from repeating in South Africa as well as other...
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...ISSN: 1818-9687 5. Revisiting the debate on the Africanisation of higher education: An appeal for a conceptual shift TEBELLO LETSEKHA 44. 19. Improving schools: The importance of culture JACKY LUMBY Mentorship challenges in the teaching practice of distance learning students 54. 71. A managerial perspective of the role of secondary school learners in the development and implementation of a code of conduct Adolescents' gender stereotypes, differences and other aspects of behaviour in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa C.F. STEINMANN TUNTUFYE MWAMWENDA VOLUME 8 / 2013 29. ELIZE DU PLESSIS Practitioners’ Corner Good policy, bad results: An investigation into the implementation of a plagiarism policy in a faculty at a South African university ESRINA MAGAISA THE INDEPENDENT Formerly The Journal of Independent Teaching and Learning The Independent Journal of Teaching and Learning The Independent Journal of Teaching and Learning is a peer-reviewed journal, which focuses on making a difference to educators at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels. It publishes original contributions of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of education. The following types of contribution will be considered for publication: • research-based empirical, reflective or synoptic articles that would be of interest to the educational practitioner • review articles that critically examine research carried...
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...Americans from obtaining certain types of employment that would have allowed for progression and economic stableness. In addition, a penal system, known as the convict lease system, was created. This system was not meant to benefit those in the system but the state and private entities. In this system convicts were leased out to state or private entities to aid in projects. This allowed these entities complete projects under cost and increase their profits as they had essentially free labor . African Americans and other minorities would be charged with minor crimes and placed in these systems to provide the labor. This system was essentially a new form of slavery and further led to the economic oppression of the African American Community Each...
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...Executive Summery This is a country notebook on the country South Africa. There are so many different issues and facts about this country that very few know about. South Africa has had its ups and downs mostly because of racial issues that have been within this country for years. I have taken the time to look up some very important information about this country. Some of the information I found was very disturbing, but I had the opportunity to learn about it. In this section of the county notebook some of the information and relevant facts that I found where based on South Africa’s history, location, geographical settings, social institutions, religion, living conditions, social security, health care, and all eleven of the official languages spoken there. This information gathered will help one to consider if they should do business in this country. If one does or does not decide to do. Business in this country, the information provided will allow them to read through the notebook and state whether having a business in this country will be beneficial to them or not. Introduction South Africa is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. This country has been through a lot hardship facing racial issues and diversity. They are now in the world where the majority of their population is dieing of the virus HIV/AIDS. Here stands a country on the verge of breakthrough in the modern world that has opened its eyes to see that...
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...Quality Assurance in Education 1 Quality Assurance in Education Stephanie Matseleng Allais Issues in Education Policy Number 5 Centre for Education Policy Development Quality Assurance in Education Stephanie Matseleng Allais Issues in Education Policy Number 5 Centre for Education Policy Development Published by the Centre for Education Policy Development PO Box 31892 Braamfontein Johannesburg 2017 Tel: +27 11 403-6131 Fax: +27 11 339-3455 Copyright © CEPD 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9814095-8-0 Series editor: John Pampallis Design and layout by: Adam Rumball, Sharkbuoys Designs Contents Preface Abbreviations and Acronyms Introducing Quality Assurance A Very Short History of Quality Assurance Debates about Quality Assurance The lead parachute The audit conundrum Who guards the guardians? 5 7 9 9 12 12 13 14 Different Ways of Thinking about Quality Assurance in Education 15 Traditional ways of monitoring and improving quality in education 15 Quality assurance models 19 South African Organisations Responsible for Quality Assurance in Education The current set-up Umalusi Department of Education Higher Education Quality Committee Professional associations Sectoral Education and Training Authorities A changing system? Debates about Quality Assurance in Education What is the product? What about the audit conundrum? Fitness for purpose or fitness of purpose? How do we know that quality assurance improves quality? Conclusion Further Reading Titles in the...
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...ORIGINAL Afr J Psychiatry 2010;13:116-124 Mental Health Stigma: What is being done to raise awareness and reduce stigma in South Africa? 1 R Kakuma1,2,3, S Kleintjes3, C Lund3, N Drew4, A Green5, AJ Flisher3,6, MHaPP Research Programme Consortium7 Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada 3Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa 4Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 5Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development (NCIHD), University of Leeds, United Kingdom 6Research Centre for Health Promotion, University of Bergen, Norway 7The Mental Health and Poverty Project (MHaPP) is a Research Programme Consortium (RPC) funded by the UK Department for International Development (DfID)(RPC HD6 2005- 2010) for the benefit of developing countries. The views expressed are not necessarily those of DfID. RPC members include Alan J. Flisher (Director) and Crick Lund (Co-ordinator) (University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa (RSA)); Therese Agossou, Natalie Drew, Edwige Faydi and Michelle Funk (World Health Organization); Arvin Bhana (Human Sciences Research Council, RSA); Victor Doku (Kintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana); Andrew Green and Mayeh Omar (University of Leeds, UK); Fred Kigozi (Butabika Hospital, Uganda); Martin Knapp (University of London,...
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...policies of strict racial segregation and political and economic domination of blacks (Africans, “Coloreds,” and Asians) pursued by the National Party government of South Africa. According to Anthony Lemon of Geographic Review, apartheid can be described as the most ambitious contemporary exercise in applied geography which shaped South Africa’s social, economic and political geography to an extent more usually associated with the command economies of former communist countries. Throughout the history of South Africa there has been a division between whites and blacks but in the 1960s South Africa had a high economic growth, trade with Western countries grew, and investors from the United States, France and Britain wanted a piece of the action which crushed the resistance among blacks. Since 1964, Mandela, leader of the African National Congress, had been in prison on Robben Island just off the coast from Capetown, and it appeared that South Africa’s security forces could handle any resistance to apartheid. In the seventies the white supremacy of South Africa began fading. In 1976 South Africa’s Nationalist Party passed a law prohibiting instruction in schools to be in any language but Afrikaans and English. In 1978 the defense minister of the Nationalist Party, P.W. Botha, became Prime Minister. Botha’s entire white regime was worried about the Soviet Union helping revolutionaries in South Africa. Concerned over the popularity of Mandela, Botha denounced him as an arch-Marxist...
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... When reflecting on my six-month expedition to South Africa, I recognized various aspects of prejudice and discrimination. Although racial categories in South Africa have been abolished, many native countrymen still view themselves and others according to these categories. Race is the classification system to categorize people based on physical characteristics, but has not scientific significance. “Blacks are the largest racial group in South Africa (approximately 79% [of the total population]) (Shutts, Kinzler, Katz, Tredoux, & Spelke, 2011)” consisting of several ethnic groups, such as Khoi-San, Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, Sotho, Venda, and Shangaan. Ethnicity is cultural traits shared by a category of people; religion, language, and national origin are types of ethnic classifications. However, the minority of white South Africans have more freedom and opportunities because of the unspoken racial separation within the government and workforce. Khoi-San is the unified name of two ethnic groups, who share physical characteristics and languages of the Bantu region. They are known to have small, short frames, copper-brown skin, high cheekbones, and slanted eyes differentiating them from their dark African counterparts. They are native to the semi-desert regions in South Africa. The Venda live in remote, mountainous region near the southern tip. They are a mix of many cultures, like Central African, Eastern African, Sotho, and Nguni. They speak Tshivenda, and practice...
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...Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, the Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress in 1865 in order to help reconstruct the South by building communal institutions. It aimed to aid former black slaves, as well as poor whites in receiving food, housing, medical treatment as well as aid in labor disputes. The biggest success of the Bureau was establishing schools. Prior to the civil war, Southern states did not maintain a public education system. Northern states view education necessary for progress, making this a priority to build in the South. Education was also highly desired by newly freed slaves. These former slaves saw literacy and higher education a way to...
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