Kader introduced OBE and it failed.
Mulholland fought it tooth and nail from before its introduction.
http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global[_id]=26866
Sunday Times columnist Steven Mulholland voiced concerns that OBE was replacing reading, writing and arithmetic with projects, portfolios and performances. The essential shortcoming of OBE, he argued, was that it refuted the need for competition and individual excellence because its workings were group-based and aimed at promoting self-esteem. Children would not learn basic skills because they would not be taught them. Instead, the system would produce a generation of confident illiterates.
And this:
http://www.btimes.co.za/97/0608/columns/columns2.htm
There they are on the same Finweek billboard on the N1.
Pic to come if I can take it timeously.
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