Cry, the beloved country. Mandela's vision vs reality: analysing 30 years of South African education

NELSON Mandela believed in planning. Thirty years before the first post-apartheid census undertaken in 1996, he could not be more explicit.In a letter he wrote to Adelaide Tambo from prison, Madiba said, “Significant progress is always possible if we ourselves plan every detail and allow intervention of fate only on our own terms.”Statistics South Africa was releasing the results of the 1996 Census and Madiba was launching these to the nation.  The census reflected a South Africa, two years old after the breakthrough of 1994.Mandela noted the evidence in the results that within the…