"What is the use of teaching a Bantu child Mathematics (and Science) when it cannot use it in practice? . . . Education must train and teach people in accordance with their opportunities in life," architect of apartheid and former South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was quoted as having said in 1945.
It would appear independent Sadc countries are still unwittingly guided by Verwoerd's colonial mentality given current challenges facing the region in promoting Mathematics, Science and Technology education.
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