Why is such a high percentage of people in villages like Nzinga illiterate?
– “The lingering impact of apartheid is still having a huge impact. Forty years of Bantu education meant that in 1994 of our 30,000 schools, 70% didn’t have electricity; 60% didn’t have phones; 58% didn’t have sanitation and 42% didn’t have access to fresh water. Our pupil teacher ratio was 50:1. Almost more importantly, a fact which is much overlooked, is that the great majority of our teachers – and many of the 380,000 government school teachers – were victims of Bantu education themselves, in that they had been denied access to decent schooling infrastructure and in particular to a math and science education. The legacy of 40 years of Bantu Education cannot be eradicated in 12. There is a massive amount of work still to be done.” (S.A. Department of Education) – AIDS is another major contributor. In 2007, eight (8) teachers died of AIDS every DAY in KwaZulu Natal (the province of which Nzinga is a part), absolutely devastating most classrooms and making consistency impossible. – “Kw
