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Exams disrupted at E Cape school

By Sikho Ntshobane - 12 November 2015
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY CHARLOTTE PLANTIVE Students at Ibhongo High School, in the heart of South Africa's biggest township Soweto, in class, 16 January 2008. Last year, only a third of Ibhongo's students passed their final matriculation exams against a national average of 65 percent. Despite its status as Africa's largest economy, such tales of social deprivation are common in a country where 43 percent of the population live below the poverty line, mainly in rural areas or townships such as Soweto which is on the outskirts of Johannesburg. "Education in South Afica is shown to be in crisis. Seventy percent of our schools are not functioning," says Graeme Bloch, a specialist in education from the Development Bank of Southern Africa. "It's not a crisis in that that it is falling apart, but kids who are going to school are not learning anything. It doesn't provide skills to our fast-growing economy and it reinforces the divisions of the past.". AFP PHOTO ALEXANDER JOE (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images)
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY CHARLOTTE PLANTIVE Students at Ibhongo High School, in the heart of South Africa's biggest township Soweto, in class, 16 January 2008. Last year, only a third of Ibhongo's students passed their final matriculation exams against a national average of 65 percent. Despite its status as Africa's largest economy, such tales of social deprivation are common in a country where 43 percent of the population live below the poverty line, mainly in rural areas or townships such as Soweto which is on the outskirts of Johannesburg. "Education in South Afica is shown to be in crisis. Seventy percent of our schools are not functioning," says Graeme Bloch, a specialist in education from the Development Bank of Southern Africa. "It's not a crisis in that that it is falling apart, but kids who are going to school are not learning anything. It doesn't provide skills to our fast-growing economy and it reinforces the divisions of the past.". AFP PHOTO ALEXANDER JOE (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images)
Some grades at Nyanga Senior Secondary School in Ngcobo could not write their exams today after teachers refused to invigilate.Only the school's deputy principal and another teacher are left behind while the majority of staff members camped out at the district education office.

At the centre of unhappiness is the decision by a district official to allow pupils, who had been expelled for bullying, back.

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