Nomagqwethekana Comprehensive Technical High School pupils in an unfinished classroom. Picture: ALAN EASON

Nomagqwethekana Comprehensive Technical High School is a school renowned for uncooperative pupils and operates with no discipline policies. This school is overcrowded, has a high number of pregnant pupils, child headed households and de-motivated pupils
It is also home to 721 pupils and 21 teachers. Read the rest of this entry »

Nomalanga Qadi. Picture: ALAN EASON

In the poverty-stricken village of Bulala in Bizana is a  family of four headed by matric pupil Nomalanga Qadi.
Nomalanga is no ordinary matric pupil – she is 25-years-old  and is the sole guardian of her brother Mandla, 15, and sister  Zanele, 13.
She is also a mother to two-year-old Lungani. Read the rest of this entry »