Lesbians raped "to correct them"

[Kymmy]

Yep, I did some of my schooling over in South Africa in the late 70's and the standard there compared to when I went to school here was measurably higher

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

Yep, I did some of my schooling over in South Africa in the late 70's and the standard there compared to when I went to school here was measurably higher

I understand that exams in some schools there were to Oxford or Cambridge standard. (Accredited)

Although I guess it was a very small minority of black people who received such education.

[Kymmy]

Off-topic but the schooling system takes you directly to university (no colleges as in the UK)

During apartheid the only non-white schools were in none-white areas designated as homelands. A homeland is where if we take the Zulu for example the Zulu's had to live if they served no purpose for the white population. Only if you had a job did you have an excuse to stay in a white area.. Obviously very few children were deemed as workforce so as far as the goverment were concerned no schools were needed outside of the homelands as few children were official outside of them areas

As I've said from very early on in this thread an education in general would stop the archaic viewpoints that a lot of the poorest sectors of the population have in SA. Schools were promised before the post apartheid elections but few new ones were built and as the education system over there isn't always free it means less and less places for those desperately in need..