Mark Hunter, Research Associate in Population and Development Studies at the University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN), demonstrated how the mobility of children between city schools counteracts government attempts to address education inequalities and creates a situation in which schools are increasingly divided according to class.
Africa today faces both an opportunity for major social change and the potential for increasing barbarism in what is perhaps the most exciting period in our history. “This is a period pregnant with hope, but also pregnant with its twin, despair,” said Mr Firoze Manji, former-director of Pan African online news publication Pambazuka.
Associate Professor Andrew Nash of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Department of Political Science, argued that the implosion of South African Marxism at the moment of transition to a constitutional democracy resulted in the loss of the moral and political culture the country had known at the end of the struggle.
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