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I visited the KwaZulu Minister of Education and Culture, Dr Oscar Dhlomo, with a film team and my West German colleague, Michael Stroh, in his office in Ulundi. The minister stressed that non-racial quality education had become essential for a prosperous and peaceful future in South Africa. ‘To begin with,’ he said, ‘it will be the task to unite no less than six fragmented and compartmentalised civil service departments and some 1,8 million pupils into a single cohesive unit, a single Education Department, which from its inception will be the largest in Southern Africa and indeed in the Southern hemisphere. Secondly: it is the challenge of correcting and balancing a faulty system which produces, on one hand, wasteful surpluses of staff and facilities, resulting in out-of-work teachers and deserted schools, and on the other, crippling shortfalls and backlogs which severely hamstring an already limited education effort and add to the legacy of ignorance and neglect.’ Dr Dhlomo further stressed that the new proposals on education could be defined as, ‘the development of the whole person, through the intellectual and physical, emotional and social, moral and
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