Bantu Education
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Piece of cutting-edge journalism resonates, 50 years later
A powerful 1976 article by veteran journalist Dr. Mothobi Mutloatse, titled ‘Leaders Lash "Stupid" Education System’ and published in the Weekend World, is being included in a…
The Arc betrayed
The 1976 generation fought against Bantu Education for liberation, but their grandchildren, born after 1994, navigate a different landscape. This article explores whether the…
Brash photographer Ernest Cole revisited
House of Bondage: The book that shocked the world
African youth: Empowering the continent’s greatest asset
Education is the best way to turn young people’s potential into realised achievements
Jonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture
Gwangwa’s love for the struggle was genuine and deep, never cosmetic – and he couldn’t have written an unattractive tune if he tried
Mandela said I could, so I got my doctorate
My mother was a domestic worker and my father a miner, and I went to school in the townships
Danger in restricting knowledge
Secrecy and the selective education of a few led to the fall of the Ancient Egyptians
Young people must take the baton from the heroes of 1976
In the hope of creating a better South African future, the youth of today should look to the past
20 years after the ‘Mamdani affair’, the old adversary rejoins UCT
The academic who took on the university’s ‘bantu’ curriculum has returned, marking a ‘path towards decolonisation’
Restore hope to SA’s democracy
A better future is possible – but only if the scourge of inequality is banished
Rethink role of technical colleges
Germany is an example of how economic transformation could take place in South Africa
A present with poor education leads to a future with no hope
When the socks that need pulling up are absent, we must turn to leaders, the government, municipalities and citizens, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
Rededicating quality education
Winner: Investing in the Future Education Award — Tiger Kloof Educational Institution
Bantu Education cannot continue to haunt us
The achievements of learners are still strongly (and sadly) linked to the circumstances of their birth, writes Annette Lovemore.
Motshekga on Ramphele: She’s looking for a hobby
Angie Motshekga and Mamphela Ramphele have clashed again after the Agang SA leader’s fresh comments that education under apartheid was better in SA.