ManciMann Insights

Applied anthropology as discipline, is important to bring a fair, just, understandable, functional policy framework that will suit the people who it is being implemented into or for. Cultural or societal values, virtues, norms, perception and perspective on economic, social, political, lingual, private and public realm must be brought into consideration when bringing any sort of policy. The discussion here is on how applied anthropology may be used in creation and implementation of policy.  The Language Policy: In the implementation and creation of policy, it would be wise for economists, sociologist, politicians, statisticians, bureaucrats and other policy makers to be alert about the culture or society the policy is being implemented for; that is, it should first take a language frame work that is suitable for the readers. Wardhaugh, R (2006:01) state how we need firstly to discuss the relationship between language and society as well as many functions of language with

Siya Manci, Dylan MacMann and Ikunda Maruma: Rhodes University  1.       Background Information to Education in South Africa When one looks at South Africa today, there is a great amount of poverty, inequality and unemployment affecting the lives of millions of South Africans. One of the most effective ways and possibly one of the only ways to alleviate these issues is through education. The term ‘education’ can be described as the process of facilitating, learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, values and skills (Writer, 2017). If we look specifically at the basic education system, we are able to identify many issues affecting the effectiveness of the policies. These policies have been put into place with the intention of addressing and reforming the education system, with the aim of alleviating the injustices of the apartheid era. South Africa’s past is one that simply cannot be ignored as it has dispositioned and disadvantaged the vast majority of South Africans with