The paradox of Black pupil enrolment growth rates in South African schools

Abstract

In this paper, an outline is presented of a paradoxical feature of past trends in the demand for and supply of schooling to the Black population of South Africa. The paradox is that demand for Black schooling increased despite disincentives to do so under the apartheid policy. As background, a brief historical review of the provision of schooling to Blacks is also presented.

Notes

Lecturer in Economics, Rhodes University. This paper draws on work contained in an unpublished DPhil thesis submitted by the author to Rhodes University, Grahamstown. in 1990 entitled An economic analysis of government expenditure allocations to Black schooling in South Africa.