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Home > South Africa: Apartheid legacy haunts SA's schools

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 02:00
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Education [2]
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278 [3]
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Expletives are scrawled across the classroom walls, the library ceiling has collapsed and up to 45 pupils cram into each filthy classroom -- when the teachers turn up that is. But despite the shoddy state of her school, 14-year-old Constance Mpho has even bigger worries. "Smoking and killing people," said the pupil from Veritas Secondary School in Soweto.

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