WORTH THE FIGHT - Fixing failure in South African Schools

Jonathan Jansen goes back to school: to the Cape Flats high school next door to where he grew up.

After learning that the school got the worst matric results in the Western Cape in 2023, Jansen signed up to help out. He spent two years in the principal’s office, teaching some of the science subjects and getting to the bottom of extreme pressures bearing down on teachers and learners, for whom it was impossible to leave the trauma of broken families and violent crime a…