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Education in South Africa is governed by two national departments, namely the Department of Basic Education (DBE), which is responsible for primary and secondary schools, and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), which is responsible for tertiary education and vocational training.
South Africa has cultivated a burgeoning astronomy community. It hosts the Southern African Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. South Africa is currently building the Karoo Array Telescope as a pathfinder for the $20 billion Square Kilometer Array project to be built in South Africa and Australia.
The history of education in Africa can be divided into pre-colonial and post-colonial periods. [1] Since the introduction of formal education by European colonists to Africa, education, particularly in West and Central Africa, has been characterized by both traditional African teachings and European-style schooling systems.
Traditional education, also known as back-to-basics, conventional education or customary education, refers to long-established customs that society has traditionally used in schools. Some forms of education reform promote the adoption of progressive education practices, and a more holistic approach which focuses on individual students' needs ...
There are two types of higher education in South Africa: vocational and technical education, and university education. Due to high rates of unemployment among the youth, South Africa attaches great importance to technical education, with the aim of cultivating professional and technical talents to increase employment and promote economic ...
In “A Young South Africa,” (at the NOW Gallery in London until November 19), work from six photographers and creatives document the diversity of style, talent and thriving subcultures among ...
Roy Campbell, South African poet, Catholic convert, and critic of Stalinism, Nazism, and Apartheid. Ernest Cole (photographer), South Africa's first black freelance photographer. Blessed Benedict Daswa, a Catholic convert from the Lemba people. First South African Blessed & Martyr; Christopher Hope, South African journalist, playwright, and poet.
The Xhosa are the second largest cultural group in South Africa, after the Zulu people. [ 38 ] Under apartheid , adult literacy rates were as low as 30%, [ citation needed ] and in 1996 [update] studies estimated the literacy level of first-language Xhosa speakers at approximately 50%. [ 39 ]