SAHRC Report: Transformation at Public Universities in South Africa

The SAHRC Report: Transformation at Public Universities in South Africa "encompasses a record of the systemic challenges that hinder the attainment of substantive transformation in higher education and therefore constitutes an important tool for assessing progress in attaining substantive transformation in this sector. Moreover, the recommendations contained in this Report may be used to contribute to the transformation processes currently underway in many of our public universities. For this reason, therefore, it is hoped that despite the delay in the finalisation of the Report, it will receive due consideration from all stakeholders involved in the transformation project.

Furthermore, it must be noted that whilst the Report does refer, albeit in passing, to some of the developments that transpired after the conclusion of the National Hearing, the Commission does not deal with these developments in any comprehensive way in this Report. Given the nature of these developments and their significance, the Commission may need to engage with all relevant stakeholders further to address these matters in a separate report at a later stage.

It should be noted that the Report does not purport to contain a full record of all the transformation issues in the higher education sector. In addition, it should be noted that the examples of positive and negative practices referred to in this Report are not intended at demonising or praising particular universities, but are recorded merely to illustrate the state of transformation in the sector."