Two decades after apartheid by Lucy Holborn “It’s bad. It just is,” says Malehlohonolo Khauoe about the education she received at a rural school outside Matatiele in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, the country’s worst-performing region. Schooling here is so inferior that the national education ministry took over its management. This is the frontline of the education crisis in South Africa. The 19-year-old is one of its millions of victims. When pressed to describe what is so bad at her school, she says the “problem is mostly with the teachers”. Gugulethu Xhala, 20, is from the same village but went…
