Education and democracy in South Africa today

Daedalus

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 185-204

  Asmal, Kader ^a   James, Wilmot ^b  

^a Minister of Education ^*  (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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References (43)

1. See Peter Kallaway, ed., Apartheid and Education: The Education of Black South Africans (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1984);
2. Jonathan Hyslop, The Classroom Struggle: Policy and Resistance in South Africa, 1940-1990 (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1999).
3. In this essay we refer to whites as people of largely European descent, coloreds as people of European, Asian, and African descent, Indians as people of Indian descent, and black Africans as people of west and central African descent. The term "black" is a generic one for all colored, Indian, and black African people and does not necessarily refer to color.
4. Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
5. Central Statistical Services, October Household Survey (Pretoria: Central Statistical Services, 1995).
6. Debbie Budlender, "Human Development," in Julian May, ed., Poverty and Inequality in South Africa: Meeting the Challenge (Cape Town and London: David Philip Publishers and Zed Books, 1999), 99.
7. Nancy Birdsall and Lesley O'Connell, "Race, Human Capital Inequality, and Income Distribution in South Africa, Brazil and the United States," in Charles Hamilton, Wilmot James, Neville Alexander, and Antonio Guimares, eds., The Same Beneath the Skin (forthcoming).
8. Department of Education, Annual Report, 1999 (Pretoria: Department of Education, 2000).
9. South Africa Survey, 1999-2000 (Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1999), 143.
10. Budlender, "Human Development," 99.
11. As reported in the Cape Times, 1 August 2000, 1.
12. Ian Goldin and Chris Heymans, "Moulding a New Society: The RDP in Perspective," in Gitanjali Maharaj, ed., Between Unity and Diversity: Essays on Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Cape Town: IDASA, 1999), 110.
13. Budlender, "Human Development," 99.
14. South Africa Survey, 1999-2000, 132.
15. Budlender, "Human Development," 99.
16. South Africa Survey, 1999-2000, 143-144; interview with Professor Ben Parker, University of Natal, 3 December 2000.
17. Holman Institute, Independent Survey of Teacher Motivation, Johannesburg, 2000.
18. See the various public-opinion surveys conducted by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA); and Robert Mattes, Hermann Thiel, and Helen Taylor, "Citizens Commitment to Democracy," in Wilmot James and Moira Levy, eds., Pulse: Passages in Democracy-Building: Assessing South Africa's Transition (Cape Town: IDASA, 1998), 91-109.
19. See Francis Wilson and Mamphela Ramphele, Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989) and May, ed., Poverty and Inequality in South Africa.
20. See Charles van Onselen, The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996);
21. and Wilson and Ramphele, Uprooting Poverty.
22. South African Non-Governmental Organization Coalition, Hearings on Poverty (Johannesburg: SANGOCO, 1998).
23. School Register of Needs, Department of Education, Pretoria, 1999.
24. See Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings, "'Two Nations'? Race and Economic Inequality in South Africa Today," in this issue of Dœdalus.
25. As reported in the Cape Times, 1 August 2000;
26. Budlender, "Human Resources."
27. See Charles Simkins, "Can South Africa Avoid a Malthusian Positive Check?" in this issue of Dœdalus;
28. Mamphela Ramphele and Henry Rosovsky (cochairs), Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise/The Task Force on Higher Education and Society (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2000).
29. Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991).
30. Simkins, "Can South Africa Avoid a Malthusian Positive Check?"
31. Council on Higher Education, Towards a New Higher Education Landscape: Meeting the Equity, Quality and Social Development Imperatives of South Africa in the 21st Century (Pretoria: Council on Higher Education, 2000), 11.
32. Towards a New Higher Education Landscape: Meeting the Equity, Quality and Social Development Imperatives of South Africa in the 21st Century ( 2000), 11 Ibid.
33. Interview with Nazeema Badsha, Deputy Director General, Department of Education, 4 December 2000.
34. See Rene de Villiers, "Afrikaner Nationalism," in Monica Wilson and Leonard Thompson, eds., The Oxford History of South Africa, vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1971), 365-423;
35. Shula Marks and Stanley Trapido, "Lord Milner and the South African State," History Workshop Journal 8 (1979): 50-80.
36. Monica Wilson and Archie Mafeje, Langa: A Study of Social Groups in an African Township (Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1963).
37. See Stuart Saunders, Vice-Chancellor on a Tightrope (Cape Town: David Philip, 2000).
38. de Villiers, "Afrikaner Nationalism," 365-423.
39. T. Dunbar Moodie, The Rise of Afrikanerdom: Power, Apartheid and the Afrikaner Civil Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980).
40. Dan O'Meara, Volkskapitalisme: Class, Capital, and Ideology in the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism, 1934-1948 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
41. The Impumelelo Innovations Awards Program 2000, Cape Town, Rhoda Kadalie, director. Zerilda Park Primary School, Steenberg, Cape Town, was awarded one of the top categories of prizes for its building projects.
42. Francis Fukuyama, "The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order," The Atlantic Monthly (May 1999): 78.
43. Wilmot James (chair), Working Group on Values in Education, Values, Education and Democracy (Cape Town: Department of Education, 2000).