This is a complex and unsettling story – one thing that seems clear, though, is that it would be a mistake to write this loss of talent and skills off simply to a white (and, by implication or inference, racist) exodus. People are leaving for a bunch of reasons, but basically they are voting with their feet. And the consequences for the country are not good. via Where’s everyone going? Behind SA’s new skills exodus
Category: News and Updates
After Children Die in Pit Toilets, South Africa Vows to Fix School Sanitation – The New York Times
The tragic saga of basic infrastructure in South Africa’s poorest schools, serving the poorest (black) children, goes on and on and on. No-one is held accountable. The state takes no effective action. Funds disappear, and children suffer. In some cases they pay with their lives. This is a defining reality of post-apartheid South Africa. We expected better. via After Children Die in Pit Toilets, South Africa Vows to Fix School Sanitation – The New York Times
Education: In SA, Children’s rights die one PowerPoint at a time | Daily Maverick
Tragically, and with bitter irony, failure in education has come to define post-apartheid South Africa.
via Education: In SA, Children’s rights die one PowerPoint at a time | Daily Maverick
What do we mean by results?
All of us in the development field want ‘results,’ presumably – but what does this mean? Does the focus on results translate into top-down, centralised, short-termism, or… Read more “What do we mean by results?”
Youth unemployment needs action now as well as long term strategies
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