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SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AFRICA
About Schools in South Africa
The better schools inherited from apartheid serve only a numerical minority who can afford them in the cities. The old township schools are too few and overcrowded, and rural children are ill provided for.

The Mail & Guardian, August 8 to 14, 1997, reported on the first ever nation-wide register of schools undertaken for the Ministry of Education.

The Education Budget of R40-billion [5-billion] has to be increased in real terms by over 3% a year for about 10 years to overcome the backlogs in education. Education already takes 40% of the national budget, equal to about 6% of the Gross National Product.

An old school in the Eastern CapeA Ramshackle Inheritance
Most of South Africa's 32,000 schools have no libraries or laboratories. Most pupils have to study with too few desks and chairs, and without enough textbooks. School buildings are often ramshackle buildings that are unsafe for educational purposes. That is what was inherited from the apartheid past.

The Greatest Needs
57,000 classrooms must be built.

15,000 schools do not yet have electricity supplied. Not having lights also means that no photocopiers, or other equipment, so essential in modern education, can be used. 17,000 schools do not have telephones.

Northern Province
The Northern Province had 4 separate apartheid "Homelands." That province with its 1.9 million pupils has the worst education facilities of all the provinces.

90% of schools do not have a library or a laboratory. Less than 20% of secondary schools provide specialised subject teaching. Pupils lack textbooks. The situation is similar in the other 8 provinces. Community H.E.A.R.T. is funding specialist science education.

Matriculation
In these conditions, the Northern Province pass-rate of nearly 39% in the matriculation examinations (the final examinations after school year12) is miraculous.

No Water
10,000 schools have no running water, and deep boreholes with pumps are needed. 270,000 toilets are needed. [Note that 10,000 schools need running water.]

Community H.E.A.R.T., with your support, CAN provide the books needed by the 27,000 schools that have no libraries

We need your financial help.
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