University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Restructuring of South African Higher Education: Rocky Roads from Policy Formulation to Institutional Mergers, 2001-2005

The Restructuring of South African High Education

Terri Barnes, Associate Professor of History, and Gender and Women's Studies

Before 1994, South Africa supported 36 higher education institutions as part of its apartheid legacy. Enforced racial segregation resulted in a plethora of institutions to accommodate specific racial and language groups, which were managed and professionally staffed mostly by white males.