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Crossposted from H-SAFRICA Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 From: Mark P Snyders, University of Fort Hare <mark.s@ufhcc.ufh.ac.za> I agree with Gerald Shaw and Clifton Jones' wife, basic literacy skills is one of the major problems in South Africa where apartheid actively discouraged the education of black people by constructing a difficult curriculum and teaching it in a difficult language (Afrikaans) which led to the 1976 riots by school pupils in Soweto. It is unfortunate that the curriculum for black schools for some time remained a difficult one and was not changed much except for being taught in English in some cases. Students who have suffered under a strict curriculum during the 1980's, some of whom are now university students are still experiencing problems of literacy, poor comprehension and language skills.
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