🎧 Full Audiobook | In this gripping and unapologetically raw narrative, co-authors Chris Kanyane and Nomsa Bokaba expose the political and ideological decisions that led to the catastrophic downfall of South Africa’s technikons—once the backbone of the country’s technical, industrial, and skills-based development.
Once thriving institutions that transformed working-class lives, these technikons were deliberately dismantled in the name of “transformation.” What was promised as progress instead became a long, slow erosion of practical education, resulting in a lost generation of graduates, a hollowed-out skills pipeline, and a national shame: South Africa now looks beyond its borders—even to Zimbabwe—for the very technical expertise it once exported.
🎙️ Chris Kanyane, with nine years of insider experience at Technikon Witwatersrand and Technikon Northern Gauteng, and Nomsa Bokaba, a counselling psychologist who has spent 18 years on the frontlines witnessing the psychological toll of these changes on students, deliver an emotionally searing yet factually grounded account. This is not theory—this is lived reality.
What You’ll Hear in This Audiobook:
🎓 The collapse of technikons and the loss of vocational excellence
💥 How political ideology and racial engineering replaced competence with chaos
😔 Real-life stories of students battling depression, hopelessness, and unemployment
📉 The erosion of pathways from TVET colleges to higher, hands-on qualifications
🚨 A country once rising, now dependent on foreign-trained artisans and engineers
🧠 Institutional confusion inside vague, identity-less “universities of technology”
Why This Matters:
This audiobook is not just about education—it’s about a national betrayal. It’s about how working-class dreams were buried under bureaucratic vanity, how functioning systems were torched in the name of false equality, and how the proud legacy of technical excellence was replaced with political showmanship.
🎧 Listen. Weep. Reflect. Rise.
Because the nation that killed its technikons also killed its most powerful engine of innovation, dignity, and self-reliance.
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