• CONTESTED TRANSITION, reflections on South Africa's education system, 1994-1999, introduction by Linda Chisholm

CONTESTED TRANSITION, reflections on South Africa's education system, 1994-1999, introduction by Linda Chisholm

: Manganyi (N.C.), Essop (A.) & Nengwekkhulu (R.)

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148pp., paperback, KMM Review Publishing, Johannesburg, 2024

ISBN:9780639902487

 

Contributions include:

"The politics of education policy in the transition to democracy" by Ahmed Essop

"An education transition diary 1994-1999" by N Chabani Manganyi

"Implementation challenges in post-1994 school education: Lessons from Limpopo and the Eastern Cape" by Ramwedzi Harry Nengwekhulu.

Ahmed Essop is currently a Research Associate at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg. In the 1990s he worked at the Centre for Education Policy Development, and served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Higher Education (2010-1015) and as Chief Director for Higher Education Planning in the former Department of Education (1997-2005).

Clinical psychologist N Chabani Manganyi was Executive Director of the Joint Education Trust (1993-1994), Vice-CHancellor of the then University of the North (1990-1992), advisor to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Pretoria (1999-2003) and Deputy Vice-Principal of the University of Pretoria (2003-2006).

Political activist Ramwedzi Harry Nengwekhulu was Head of Public Administration at the Institute of Development while in exile (1975-1988). On his return to South Africa he has served as Deputy Director General of the South African Management Development Institute (1996-1998), Superintendent General of the Limpopo Department of Education (2000-2006) and the Eastern Cape Department of Education (2006-2007), and as Director of the Centre for Teacher Training in Mathematics and Science and the School of Governance at UNISA (2008-2014).