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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c4EEqhB77HVHMg1cRhdpuChUAQJyC6DKxgQM2SKx6xQ/edit

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And there are many private schools that are producing well-educated students every year.

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Mbilwi Secondary School achieved a 100% pass rate for the school leaving exam.

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There are schools which continue to produce good grades under some of the most difficult circumstances.

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Professor John Volmink, chairman of the education quality assurance body Umalusi, has studied the relationship between the language of instruction and how students perform.

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There are 11 official languages in South Africa but most teaching is in English, especially for subjects such as maths and science.

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The study asked 400 12-year-old students to work out the answer for 7 x 17. To work it out, the pupils first drew 17 sticks and counted them seven times. Some 130 of the 400 got the right answer.

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There are many schools in the townships and the government has built more schools in these areas since the advent of democracy, but quality teaching and a proper structured learning process is lacking.

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"Twenty years down the line we still have the legacy of apartheid," Ms Motshekga told the BBC, "we still have teachers who were not trained for the future".

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"We are entitled to ask why a white learner is six times more likely to get into university than a black learner." Leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance Mmusi Maimane

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"We are entitled to ask why a black child is 100 times more likely than a white child to grow up in poverty," Leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance Mmusi Maimane

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At that time, the white minority government spent four times more on a white child's education than it did on a black child. At that time, the white minority government spent four times more on a white child's education than it did on a black child.

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Some will be travelling to private schools, but the majority go to the state-funded schools which are better resourced and have better teachers than their equivalents in the townships, mirroring the situation during apartheid.

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Children are packed like sardines into mini-buses and driven long distances, some over 30km (19 miles) away, to the schools in the former whites-only suburbs.

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But quality education for everyone is not there, as in many global studies South Africa often comes near the bottom in maths and science tests.

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South Africa spends more on education, some 6% of GDP, than any other African country.

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Stellenbosch University's Professor Servaas van der Berg, out of the 1.2 million seven-year-olds who enrolled in Grade 1 in 2002, slightly less than half went on to pass their school-leaving exam, the matric, 11 years later.

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The shocking statistic is that some 213,000 children failed their end of school examination for the academic year ending last month, out of a total of nearly 800,000.

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"If 25% [of students] fail, we must have sleepless nights," Angie Motshekga

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South Africa's minister of education openly admits that the country's schools are in a state of crisis.