All functions that relate to university and technikon education are to be transferred to the newly created national department of education. The entire process of organisational change is expected to be completed early 1995. It is not a final document, but lays down policy guid elines which will be fleshed out following further negotiations. Model C, farm schools and others will be replaced by uniform national school models. The constitution protects the right of language, religious and cultural diversity at schools, and rules out discrimination on the basis of race.
Every person has the right to equal access to educational institutions.
The government is to lay down uniform and equitable admission practices in all state and state-aided schools. Criteria for affirmative action is to be part of this. The government is committed to providing free and compulsory education up to and including Standard Seven. Free education is to be phased in as resources become available. The nature of local school governance and models inherited from the previous government is the subject of lively debate among policy makers and the broad public.