South Africa's education legislation, quasi-markets and de facto school choice - Stuart Woolman and Brahm Fleisch

School choice is often identified with right-leaning, voucher-happy, market-oriented public school systems like those found in the United States. Thus the proposition that a social democratic state such as South Africa will offer many primary and secondary school learners far greater choice strikes many as counter-intuitive and implausible. The authors demonstrate how three major pieces of education framework legislation conspire to create South Africa's unintended experiment in school choice.
From: Perspectives in education, Vol. 24 (2), pp. 1-24