In two weeks’ time from today our country will be celebrating the Soweto uprisings where a substantial number of students were shot at and killed by the Apartheid security forces for daring to protest against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. On 16 June 2012 it will be the 36th year anniversary of June 16, and as a country we will be half of that period into our democracy. As a country we need to assess progress made in the education front, especially at the basic and further education levels since the advent of democracy 18 years ago. We need to ask ourselves whether we have made the 1976 generation proud or we have betrayed them.
