Foundation schooling needs highly educated, dedicated teachers and this requires a recognition that this is a desired career choice.

Year after year, when the matric results are published, the problem of failing schools is raised and then forgotten – but not by those pupils.

High quality schools can learn a lot from the way businesses operate

At 8pm Joana Charles waits outside class for her history teacher at a school in Maputo, while hundreds of children run and play in the dark.