Education in a ‘liberated zone’: Inkatha and education in Kwazulu

Abstract

‘People's education’ has become the rallying cry of the struggle to overturn the present educational system in South Africa; to direct it towards a new form and content in line with calls for democracy in a unitary country. The tremendous difficulties in giving practical effect to such an education within an undemocratic, repressive society have taxed activists for decades. ¹ In one part of South Africa, however, a ‘national cultural liberation movement’ (Inkatha) has controlled, albeit within state-imposed limits, the content of and allocation of funds to education for approximately one-million pupils over a period of some nine years. What has this meant for the struggle for change in South Africa?

Hyslop. J. 1987: “‘Let Us Cry for our Children’: Lessons of the 1955-6 School Boycotts”. Transformation. No 4

Hyslop. J. 1987: “‘Let Us Cry for our Children’: Lessons of the 1955-6 School Boycotts”. Transformation. No 4

Notes

Hyslop. J. 1987: “‘Let Us Cry for our Children’: Lessons of the 1955-6 School Boycotts”. Transformation. No 4