Government must give a helping hand to learners who drop out
(WorldNews Africa)

In 2014 I covered a story in Kuruman in the Northern Cape about thousands of children who were not attending school after the community of the John Taolo Gaetsewe district had shut down all schools for more than three months. The community did this because it was calling for a tarred road. When it became clear that schools were not going to open any time soon, some of the learners — who were older and in high school — decided that they were done with school and went on to work in farms in Upington. The parents were heartbroken by their children`s decision because they hoped for a better future for them, but there was nothing they could do: the leaders of the protests were adamant that...