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South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994 was accompanied by challenges of democratization and transformation across the various spheres of society. One of these democratization projects was in the field of higher education which was riddled with inequalities following decades of implementation of policies and practices that promoted race, class and gender inequalities. The tone for the democratization project was encapsulated in the famous words of the former state president Nelson Mandela, when, at his inauguration as South Africa’s first democratically elected president of South Africa, he declared that “ never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world ” (Mandela 1994).
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Nieuwenhuis, J., Sehoole, C. (2013). The Quest for Access, Equity and Social Justice in Higher Education in South Africa. In: Meyer, HD., John, E.P.S., Chankseliani, M., Uribe, L. (eds) Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-230-3_11
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