one of its greatest weaknesses.
Government-funded higher education continued to decline. The schools
were not producing enough people qualified for university entry. In 1999,
of the half-million students who took the final school exam, only 272,000
passed; of those, only 69,800 obtained the exemption that allowed entry
into higher education; and of those only 20,000 passed advanced mathe-
matics. Moreover, not all who were qualified entered the government-
funded universities and technikons, because by 2000 there were numerous
private colleges, which concentrated on providing job-oriented training
and attracted increasing numbers of students from the pool. Meanwhile,
the government was restructuring the universities to shift the emphasis
from the humanities to mathematics and the sciences, which had been ne-
glected in the past. The universities that the apartheid government had
founded for Africans and Indians continued to be in serious financial dif-
ficulty and subject to student unrest, and, as the restructuring took place,
morale among the professors and lecturers at the former white universities
fell to an all-time IOW. I 10
South Africa's health care system ranked 151 in "attainment" and 175
in "efficiency" out of 191 countries listed in the World Health Organiza-