ABSTRACT
The main aims of the educational policies introduced after 1994 were to address equity in education and provide access for all, to redress inequalities caused by past policies, and to improve quality and efficiency in education (Kanjee et al., 2008). Some of the issues addressed by the new education policies include early childhood education and adult basic education and training; the provision of physical infrastructure for education; feeding schemes at schools, introduced primarily to encourage children to attend regularly and continue for longer in school; the provision of learner support material for schools and improvement of success rate in the classroom with particular emphasis on Grade 12; the development of planning, monitoring, and evaluation models for the entire education system; and introduction of no-fee schools since 2007.
