Very essence of equality is a good education
SOUTH Africa is a country best known globally for its miraculous story of transition from an unjust, inhumane, draconian system of apartheid to constitutional democracy.
This is the same story that gave the global community one of its favourite sons of the 20th century, Nelson Mandela. The late statesman, addressing the launching National Congress of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) in October 1990, reminded us that “education is the most powerful weapon with which one can change the world”.
In affirmation of these words, subsequent democratically elected administrations opted to make education “an apex priority”. The ninth chapter of the
