The Government's ability to control finances has led to the collapse of the State run Education system in South Africa.
Although the education budget is one of the highest in the goverment's fiscus, a lot of schools are in ruins. And not only in the Limpopo and Eastern Cape provinces, books that should have been delivered in January have not been delivered.
Discipline and honesty amoung the teaching staff and their superiors are almost non existent, not to mention corruption and abuse of taxpayers money.
The Ministers answer to improve results was to lower pass marks to 30% resulting in the fact that graduates know very little and are uneducated.
The real problem is that the lack of education has not resulted in social responsibility, hence the burgeoning over population problem. 50% of the population are under 24 years old and 19 to 24 are virtually unemployable other than in menial jobs.
Since the 2001 census 10,000,000 more people have been born. Resources are finite.
Parents Care, baby makers don't.
EDUCATE EDUCATE EDUCATE