It has become apparent that although government has vastly increased spending on education since South Africa’s first democratic election that the legacy of the Apartheid education system will not be easy to correct. Due to Bantu education South Africa has a generation which has an extremely high illiteracy rate, one of the highest in the world. However, big business is coming to the aid of government by forming a partnership to provide Adult basic Education and Training to those employees who have been worse affected by the apartheid educational system this partnership is changing lives in communities across the country.