Textbook Tander Is Corrupting Education

South Africans are the undisputed world champions of the "MacGyver" lifestyle. Living in this country is like living in an ongoing episode of a survival reality show.
When the taps run dry, we perform a rain dance toward our JoJo tanks. When the lights go out we recreate romantic 19th-century candlelit vigils, and we’ve learned to navigate potholes with the precision of lunar rover pilots.
With true South African resilience, we’ve decided that if the state won't provide the basics, we’ll just build a parallel universe in our backyards.
But you can’t JoJo tank a child’s education.

You can’t "load-shed" their ability to read, there is no "workaround" for a missing textbook, and you certainly can’t bypass a corrupt procurement process by lighting a few extra candles and hoping for the best.

Our children trust us to make sure they have the tools they need to make a better future for themselves and our country. But when the evil tendrils of corruption start wrapping themselves around our schools, threatening to deprive our children of their sacred right to an education, we cannot simply “make-a-plan” our way out of it.

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