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Nature 417, 377-378 (23 May 2002) | doi:10.1038/417377a
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South Africa: The rainbow academic nation
Michael Cherry1
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Abstract
South Africa's higher-education system was designed by the architects of apartheid. So why are today's academics resisting attempts to reform it? Michael Cherry investigates.
Amid the grim news of AIDS and crime that flows out of South Africa, one success story has gone largely unreported. During the apartheid era, higher education, like most elements of South African society, was divided along racial lines.
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