Abstract

Historically disadvantaged schools in South Africa face enormous challenges in their quest to deliver quality education. These schools are located mostly in poverty-stricken areas; physical and educational resources at these schools are poorer than at their historically advantaged counterparts and their exist product is usually regarded as inferior in terms of learner readiness to enter the career market or fit in the higher education sector. As a result, these schools experience among other challenges, transference and redeployment of educators due to being overstaffed, an exodus of learners to historically advantaged schools as parents and learners see those schools as better placed to offer quality education. The purpose of this paper is to present an entrepreneurial strategy that will try to assist these schools to overcome their present challenges. The entrepreneurial strategy is an attempt to produce entrepreneurial schools with entrepreneurial leadership (principal) because this is critical in South African education where both entrepreneurial schools and leadership (principal) within previously disadvantaged schools are in minimal numbers. No known study on the development of principals and turning historically disadvantaged schools to be entrepreneurial has been conducted in South Africa nor has such an entrepreneurial strategy been presented.