Is education about developing skills or liberating the mind and uplifting the society?

Abstract

The paper briefly sheds some light on national policy intervention for skills development, for instance, through the Employment Equity Act and its impact on redressing past inequalities and injustices, whilst promoting development. It also look at the significant factor that needs to be revisited when assessing the contemporary state of skills in SA, relates to the poor and segregated education and training inherited from apartheid in 1994 (Kraak, 2003:74). The core problem is generally a low level of education, specifically amongst the black African workforce (Vally, 1997a:40).