At the moment, progress cannot be expected in such a fragmented and fractured market. The University of the North was very active in the anti-apartheid struggle, when South Africa was isolated for a long time, with a strong academic boycott. In the 1990s there has been a lot of openness and linkages, but to date more with Western than African countries. The largest market for African scholarship is higher education, defined in the broad sense. He served on the committee dealing with libraries in the National Commission on Higher Education, the White Paper today is a policy document leading to the Higher Education Act, this is very dynamic and has already been amended twice.
Some institutions are still stuck, human change is never easy.
But higher education is one of the most dynamic sectors. The 21 publicly funded universities are in the forefront, the 15 publicly-funded technicons tend to copy. The smaller sector private universities with overseas parent bodies are not significant. All library sectors have an Africana section dealing with books by and about Africa. Syllabuses are being transformed, legislation is demanding change, and the African Renaissance is also having an effect.