This document provides information about education in South African townships. It notes that most South Africans are of black ancestry and speak Bantu languages, with English and Afrikaans also being commonly used. It then focuses on Tshume Primary School, which is supported by the Calabash Trust, and shows pictures of the staff, students at prayers, cooks preparing food, students reading in the library, doing displays, writing poems, and doing math activities. The goal is to bring a creative approach to education and promote literacy to provide opportunities for students.

1. Trying to bring a creative
approach to a South African
township school.

2. After school – back home.

3. Hungry for Education
Some shacks are
worse than others.
This was taken from
the mini bus on the
way to Tshume
Primary School.
Deprivation and dire
poverty are often the
social backdrop of
education in the
townships.

4. English is the 5th most spoken
language in south Africa
• 79.5% of South • 25% of population
Africans are of black unemployed and
ancestry living on less than
• 9 official Bantu $1.25 a day
languages • 62% under fives
• Afrikaans (of Dutch mortality rate
origin) • 88% literacy.
• English used in • 87% primary school
commerce and public attendance
life.

5. Tshume school
supported by the Calabash Trust.

6. The staff

7. At prayers

8. The great providers
The cooks are possibly the most important people
in school.

9. Samp and beans means
concentration in class

10. And so to work!
Reading is a pleasure and an escape into
the world of imagination and possibility.

11. Making a display in the library
puts South Africa on the world map.

12. Butterflies and poem writing

13. Sorting and counting.
Numeracy and spoken English combine.

14. Children eager to rush into the library and head for
the ‘Sunshine Readers.’

15. Reading and writing
promote confidence and a change for the better.
Nelson Mandela’s diaries written during his 27
years in prison.

16. Bright South African boys and girls
who can read and write in both
Xhosa and English.