Radio season Teachers in Africa

During South Africa's apartheid era, unique learning centres developed on remote white owned farms.

Farm school, as they were called thrived on huge farms with hundreds of workers, providing limited tuition to the farm hands and their children.

After independence the government took over the administration of these schools in controversial agreements with the land owners.

12 years on, contractual disputes between the government and farm owners continue to disrupt school operations in rural areas.

African Perspective visits a farm school in South Africa's Northern province of Limpompo to assess how these schools are coping.

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