When South Africa’s liberation movement passed the Freedom Charter at the 1955 Congress of the People in Kliptown, Johannesburg, access to education played a fundamental role. “The doors to learning and culture should be opened!” Says the declaration, which the African National Congress (ANC) still serves as a policy document to this day. In practice, the doors to universities in particular are still open today, 27 years after the end of apartheid, primarily to those who can afford to enter. Education is and will remain a commodity in South Africa that is sold from pre-school in different quality and at sometimes extremely high prices.
In the country with the highest inequality of wealth, parents have to make a momentous decision for their offspring from an early age. It primarily depends on the budget which school the little ones go to. State schools alone are …
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