Abstract:
The relevance of adult education in national development in the twenty-first century cannot be underestimated. Since the 1990s, international conferences on adult education have called the attention of national governments to the critical role that adult education plays in national development and to ensure that citizens have access to lifelong learning opportunities without discrimination based on gender, age, disability and ethnicity. The study discusses the role of the adult education movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the factors that caused the death of the movement and the need for a strong and unified adult education movement in the twenty-first century to advocate and hold governments accountable to provisions enshrined in the 1992 Constitution and from recommendations from International Conferences on Adult Education.