In a paper published last month in the SA Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie (SA Magazine for Science and Technology) on South Africa’s decade of experience with outcomes-based education (OBE), I concluded that what the department of education called ­outcomes-based education/Curriculum 2005 and tried unsuccessfully to implement from 1998 fell far short of being ”real” OBE for at least seven key reasons. Each of those reasons contains a valuable lesson as South Africans now attempt to determine: where do we go from here?