Public education needs an overhaul
SOUTH Africa spent just over a fifth of its 2019 national budget on education, but continues to deliver sub-standard schooling that is failing young people.
The meagre returns on the investment of 20.7% of the budget on schooling is depressingly obvious from data in the 2020 edition of the South Africa Survey published by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
Against the sum of R344.3 billion spent on education and post-school education and training in 2018/19, of the 78.1% (400
