In 1997 the Council of Education Ministers (CEM) made the decision to replace old apartheid curriculum with a new Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) curriculum in the General and Further Education and Training bands. The new curriculum was introduced in General Education and Training (GET) in 1998.

When did OBE started?

OBE was introduced to South Africa in the late 1990s by the post-apartheid government as part of its Curriculum 2005 program. [2], Initial support for the program derived from anti-apartheid education policies.

When was outcome based education introduced in South Africa?

In the beginning of 1997 the Ministry of Education, under the newly elected ANC government, took the bold initiative of introducing outcomes- based education as the most likely system to operate at all levels of South African education and to address the issue of quality (and inequality) in South African education.