Makeshift beds, shabby toilets, load-shedding — but these matrics won’t give up
Pupils at Eastern Cape school are determined to achieve good exam results, despite the appalling conditions they live and study in
16 November 2021 - 18:29
Five classrooms at Ngubesizwe Senior Secondary School, in a dusty village outside Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, are occupied by grade 8 and grade 10 pupils during the day...
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