The achievements of 12 top-scoring public and independent schools in Gauteng reveal the scope that is possible to achieve significant improvements in South Africa’s notoriously deficient education system.

Not in our taxi rank, not in our taxis, not in our homes, and not in our names

In the early nineties, apartheid came to an end in South Africa. The scars of apartheid, however, remain especially present in South Africa’s townships. Townships, used as a method to segregate black South Africans through the Group Areas Act of 1950, are located on the outskirts of urban areas and provide large populations with small portions of land. (Source: https://www.borgenmagazine.com/education-south-africas-townships)