This study investigated a system-wide change strategy in a South African school district, which sought to build the leadership capacity of principals and district officials to improve instruction. The three-year venture was called the Leadership for Learning Programme (LLP). A distinctive feature of the LLP was that it was based on a partnership…

I explore the role and skills a principal needs to succeed in a transforming South African township school environment. I looked in detail at four principals and schools exposed to innovation. Two were successful in transforming their schools and two were not. The successful principals were able to seize innovations and make them work for the…

Discusses the continuing educational and political controversy that is taking place in Soweto, South Africa. Considers some student opinions, some administrator attitudes, and a number of the educational disparities in the apartheid policy responsible for death and educational inequality in that country. (RK)