TO PRIVATIZE OR NOT TO PRIVATIZE BASIC OR SCHOOL BASED EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, THAT IS THE QUESTION. ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST. IS THERE A COMPELLING ARGUMENT FOR PRIVATIZATION OF BASIC OR SCHOOL BASED EDUCATION?

Abstract

The authors have taken the liberty in this first part of the two part series on basic or school education to paraphrase the subject matter as follows: 1. Generating funds for schools: a look at some of the options, or 2. Issues in entrepreneurship and business education in South Africa, or 3. Will public and private partnerships give a new breath of life to Non – Governmental Organizations (NGO’s), or more aptly put 4. A market – based approach to the education industry. The above issues have been crystallized and projected upon on the basis of the literature available post 1994 in terms of South African democracy and movement away from the historic apartheid divide. The effort is by no means all encompassing nor can some of the issues raised are cast in stone for they have not been subjected to testable hypothesis. The effort also draws from the literature and there is thus an element of subjectivity. This was totally unavoidable.