[Olpc-za] SA's schools of shame

[Morgan Collett]

Cover story from yesterday's Sunday Times:
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=500330

"SOUTH African children dodge pigs, stand while writing exams and swim
across rivers to get to school every day.

These are just some of the dismal conditions facing children — despite
repeated promises by the government to improve conditions.

Things are especially desperate in the Eastern Cape, where more than
800 schools are in a state of disrepair.

At Ndlovayiphathwa Primary School in Libode, 251 pupils cram into
three crumbling mud huts, with only 15 desks. The school accommodates
pupils from Grade 1 to 4.

Principal Alice Craig says the young pupils have to collect tree
stumps from a neighbouring plantation to sit on and when exam time
comes, they are made to stand to prevent them copying each other's
answers..."