‘So Much to be Done’

Abstract

Books are windows to the world, but for blacks in South Africa those windows have been closely shuttered by illiteracy. Access to books and libraries has been virtually non-existent for most of their history. Multiple languages, poorly-trained teachers, and appallingly inadequate funding combined under apartheid to create a separate and unequal educational system which locked the majority of South Africans into the role of a perpetual underclass.