Talk of dying of thirst with our feet in water ("Lack of maths doesn't add up"). South Africa is awash with well-trained, experienced, hard-working teachers.Most of them are working in restaurants, on construction sites and in miserable, inner-city private schools for little remuneration because, unfortunately, they are foreign.Due to political directives, schools will not hire these teachers. Those who are employed are bullied, threatened, blackmailed, abused and made to feel unwelcome by colleagues and management. Under-performance by schools, therefore, is partly due to politics, not lack of able teachers...