Prof Linda du Plessis rebukes Dawie Roodt’s university closure comments – The Mail & Guardian

Prof Linda du Plessis rebukes Dawie Roodt’s university closure comments – The Mail & Guardian

Visit North West University press office South Africa has too many public universities and most of them should be closed. Furthermore, only 10% of the population should pursue a university education, “while there is a big shortage at other skill levels”. These are some of the comments recently made by economist Dawie Roodt, who also labelled South Africa’s primary education sector as one of the worst in the world, arguing that the quality of sta…