Mafu Solomon Rakometsi

Transformation of Black School Education in South Africa, 1950 to 1994: a Historical Perspective Mafu Solomon Rakometsi

The new education dispensation in South Africa has its roots in the turbulent years in education. The transformation of Black school education led to the actions and counter actions that interrelated to mould a political climate that paved the way for the education where everybody has the right to learn. South African schools during the apartheid years reflected in microcosm the tensions and discord of a society at odds with itself. Education provision was fraught with intense debates and a subject of conflict in a fragmented society.