‘Silent crisis’ at schools in South Africa – education department responds

13 April 2023

The Department of Basic Education has dismissed reports that South Africa’s education system is deteriorating, saying that “the facts” point to improvements against all “relevant” metrics of education system performance.

The department was responding to several reports published by the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) in March, in which the group painted a shocking state of affairs in education in South Africa.

Among many notable points made by the reports, the group spoke of a ‘silent crisis’ in local schools, showing that South Africa has one of the worst-performing education systems in the world.

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