Independent Schooling in South Africa - a Liberal Institute publication

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| Bild: | The Friedrich Naumann Foundation Africa continues to bring you the latest publications from the Liberal Institute, the think tank of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Germany. Their latest publication is entitled “Independent Schooling in South Africa” by the editor and researcher for the Institute for Voluntary Initiative (IVI) Jean Redpath.

This paper discusses how the practice of charging school fees in public schools has impacted on the public and independent school sector in South Africa. The practice has les to the illegal exclusion of many poor children from public schools and to the entrenchment of relative privilege in formerly white public schools. At the same time, strong growth in the independent school sector has been predominantly in the middle-low income sector, where demand has been created by exclusions and poor quality education in public schools.

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