South Africa

Press, 29 January 1988, Page 16

South Africa

Sir,—Bert Walker’s enthusiasm for the apartheid regime in South Africa is leading him into making statements which cannot be supported by evidence. He is quoted as saying (January 23) that black South African schools

use the world’s most advanced and effective methods of teaching. One wonders who supplied Mr Walker with such ludicrous misinformation. Not even hq could accuse! “Time” magazine of being communist-inspired, yet that journal £ave the following figures for proportional spending on education' in South Africa: Whites, SUS7BO; blacks SUSUO (“Time,” August 5, 1985). If it costs almost $BOO to educate a white student how on Earth can a black student receive a good education for one-seventh of that amount? Many black students are receiving another type of education at the hands of the apartheid Government — they are learning at first hand the techniques of physical and psychological torture, an “effective” method of teaching, but not an “advanced” one.—Yours, etc., PATRICIA SMART. January 25, 1988.

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