April 27, 2001

Moving South Africa's Universities Beyond Educational Apartheid

By LINDA VERGNANI

Progress has been made at some institutions, but many inequities remain

Seven years after apartheid ended here, student enrollment, even at what were all-white universities, has begun to reflect what the Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu dubbed the rainbow nation.

But almost everyone agrees that South Africa has a long way to go before the effects of apartheid are erased from higher education.

Since the end of apartheid, the proportion of black students has increased

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