The Emerging Voices Report explores the lack of democracy affecting rural schools. The report raises concerns about the lack of a united view within communities regarding schooling and education. Apparent rifts among community members, among generations within the community, between communities and schools and within schools are having a negative affect on education.

The Emerging Voices report provides a mixed picture of “experience of the classroom”. Curriculum 2005 was introduced in 1997 to remove the “bias, discrimination and social injustice” that underpinned apartheid’s Christian National Education and Bantu Education. However schools are still struggling with the new curriculum methodology – OBE.