Dear SACHES member,

SACHES has just had a memorable 2011 conference at  Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort in the outskirts of Kampala City, Uganda. We have broken new ground and have some 14 new members in Uganda and Kenya.

At the BGM I was elected president of SACHES for the next term (2011-2013). I have been involved in SACHES  since its inception in 1991.

For me it is an honour to serve as president, and with your assistance I want to take the organisation forward . With me in the core executive are prof Harold Herman (vice-president), Carol Bertram (secretary), Petro van Niekerk (treasurer) , and Thobeka Mda (editor of SACHES e-newsletter). On the wider executive they are joined by Aslam Fataar (editor of Southern African Review of Education), Betty Akullo Ezati (Uganda), Itumeleng Mekoa (Eastern Cape, South Africa), Chika Muyebaa (South Africa), Mary Ntabeni (Lesotho) and Kostas Karras (Greece).

The aims of the Society are to promote comparative, international and history of education and enhance the academic status of these fields; bring an understanding of comparative education to bear on the major educational problems confronting the region and to develop through the study of comparative and history of education an understanding of the major educational problems of the day by fostering co-operative research, discussion and teaching by persons from different parts of the world.

Southern African Review of Education (SARE) incorporating Education with Production  (EWP) is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of education in the southern African region from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on education. It has a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers and practitioners in the field of education.