Education in Exile

SOMAFCO, the ANC school in Tanzania, 1978 to 1992 This book re-lives the exile experience of many South Africans from 1978 to 1992 at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO). Much is known about the youth who fled South Africa to join Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Less is known about the many who left the country to receive education and vocational training and to be part of a unique, self-reliant community at the ANC settlements of Mazimbu and Dakawa, near Morogoro in Tanzania.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

168mm x 240mm

Pages:

232

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2051-5

Publish Year:

2004

Rights:

World Rights

List of figures and photographs
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. Education and the struggle for freedom
2. Origins and early years of SOMAFCO
3. Teachers, administrators and students
4. The Charlotte Maxeke Children’s Centre
5. The primary school
6. The secondary school
7. Curriculum and pedagogy at SOMAFCO
8. The social life of students
9. South Africans and Tanzanians
10. Women at SOMAFCO
11. Dakawa Development Centre
12. Funding SOMAFCO
13. The end of SOMAFCO
14. SOMAFCO in retrospect

Notes
References and sources
Index

Dr Sean Morrow is a chief research specialist in the Democracy and Governance Research Programme. Before joining the HSRC, he was an associate Professor of History at Fort Hare University and the Director of the Govan Mbeki Research Resource Centre, where he worked on research capacity development. Dr Morrow, originally a high school teacher, has taught and researched in education and history departments in several Southern African Universities and in Ireland.

Brown Maaba is a research manager at the Steve Biko Foundation and a research associate at the University of Fort Hare.

Loyiso Pulumani is the Oral History Co-ordinator at the ANC archives unit.

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