Marginalized Knowledge: An Agenda for Indigenous Knowledge Development and Integration with Other Forms of Knowledge

Institutional Background

For a long time, South Africa maintained disparate higher education systems organized along racial lines, with vastly inferior institutions catering for black students. Through a series of mergers and incorporations, the higher education sector was transformed, and as a result, there are now three types of public higher education institutions in South Africa: traditional universities, universities of technology and comprehensive universities (Sedgwick, 2004: n.p). Two examples of the education systems mentioned above are discussed, namely the University of Zululand and Durban University of Technology (DUT), a comprehensive university and a university of technology respectively. The former is rural while the latter is urban based.