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Title:Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College: A Unique South African Educational Experience in Tanzania
Author:Serote, PethuISNI
Year:1992
Periodical:Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Issue:20
Pages:47-60
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:African National Congress (South Africa)
education
educational management
Education and Oral Traditions
External link:https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/199/OBJ/download
Abstract:On the 9th July, 1992, the ANC handed over its educational institutions in Tanzania to the Tanzanian government. This article describes two ANC educational projects in Morogoro, Tanzania, namely the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (Somafco) and the ANC Development Centre, focusing on their nature and the problems that impacted on their development in the ten years between 1979 and 1989. Somafco, established in 1978 in Mazimbu, included a day-care centre, a nursery/preschool, a primary and secondary school, and an adult education division. The Development Centre, also called Dakawa after the location where it was established in 1980, comprised a farm, a building construction project, the Ruth First Educational Orientation Centre, an adult education division, a vocational training centre and a political education school. The major problems that faced Somafco, and later Dakawa, was that their establishment was not a planned act, but a response to sudden regional problems: the arrival of thousands of people from South Africa. Criticism that may be levelled against Somafco and Dakawa is that although there was a desire to build a democratic education system, on the whole the administration of the schools remained authoritarian and unaccountable to the pupils and the community. The structures in place were uncoordinated and there was a gap between NEDUC, the ANC's National Education Council, under whose authority the schools fell, and the implementing constituency in Mazimbu and Dakawa. Bibliogr., note, ref.
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