EXPLORING ACCESS TO UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOR SOUTH AFRICA’S FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE - THE KHOISAN

Abstract

The article seeks to unpack the status of access to university education by the Khoisan people in South Africa. Access to university education is one of the critical issues that concern the indigenous people, the first nations people – the Khoisan. In South Africa, access to university education is a challenge for the ‗Coloured‘ people, who include the Khoisan community, who are relatively behind in terms of accessing university education compared to other groups. The question to be answered is how are the Khoisan people, as the aboriginal people in South Africa, accessing university education as their classification of being ‗Coloured‘ does not depict the actual situation prevailing in Khoisan society. Data was solicited using document search and thematically analysed. The major findings of the study are that the Khoisan people are not accessing university education equally with other groups in the country.