ABSTRACT
The assessment of workers’ experiential learning was placed on the national agenda soon after the election of Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s transition to democracy. Its stated goals were to help redress the education and wage gap between white and Black South Africans that was one of the major legacies of apartheid. Because of this, the slow implementation of the “recognition of prior learning” has both institutional and social dimensions and is a contested and deeply political terrain.
