A Long (un-tarred) Road to Freedom
I was travelling in the backwaters of rural Kuruman today in the Ga Segonyana district. Ga Segonyana is just adjacent to the Joe Morolong District of Kuruman, which is currently experiencing a school boycott, in which parents have kept their children from school for over three months to demand that government tar a road which runs through their communities. I was impressed by some of the good work government has undertaken to provide clinics, roads and electricity to these rural communities. And Yet there was so much that shocked me to the core.,In the village of Dithoswaneng, learners attend school with hungry stomachs. Most come from child headed households or live with their gogos (Grand mothers). Many simply end up taking exploitative informal jobs like collecting scrap and eventually dropping out of school. Because the need to feed the family comes first. Or the school in Gasehubane Village, which has a school built in the heart of an asbestos mining area and built with a...