News24 reports that international news publication, The Economist, has declared SA’s schools as among the most inept in the world.  

The London-based publication reported on Friday that SA ranked 75th out of 76 in a ranking table of education systems drawn up by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2015.  Furthermore, in November a study into trends in international mathematics and science placed SA at or near the bottom of a variety of categories.  The publication suggested that some of the problems could be attributed to the inequality of resources during apartheid-era Bantu Education, as well as a lack of sufficient teacher training in certain subjects.  It also laid the blame on the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu), saying that a report published in May 2016 indicated that "widespread" corruption and abuse was occurring.

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