In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the large number of over-age learners in the school system: schools were no longer allowed to accept students who were more than two years older than the correct grade-age and students...

A new political dispensation in 1994 heralded a period of optimism for many ordinary SouthAfricans, who hoped for freedom and an escape from poverty. Since this transition, however,South Africa has registered steady increases in unemployment, which was already high andwidespread at that stage....

In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the large number of over-age learners in the school system: schools were no longer allowed to accept students who were more than two years older than the correct grade-age and students...