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    The Silent Crisis: Time to fix SA’s schools

    Apr 26, 2023 4 minutes
    EDUCATION

    The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) launched a series of reports on South Africa’s education system recently.

    We have called for a new minister of Basic Education, director-general and top team at national and provincial levels, tasked with urgently moving South Africa off the bottom of international tables for maths, science and reading.

    The president speaks of a “silent revolution”, while the minister talks of a “system on the rise”. The truth is that we face a silent crisis in our schools: South Africa has one of the worst-performing education systems in the world.

    South Africa achieved improvements in learning outcomes

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