SA education strained but not collapsing
South Africans often judge the education system by what they see immediately around them: an overcrowded classroom; a teacher responsible for too many pupils; a school struggling to cope with growing enrolment.
Any serious assessment of education must therefore ask not simply whether the system is under pressure, but whether it has managed to keep pace with one of the fastest expansions in demand in SA’s history.
The real lesson from the evidence is that South Africa’s education challenge has fundamentally changed.
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