How funding apartheid fails young library users – The Mail & Guardian

How funding apartheid fails young library users – The Mail & Guardian

When Grade 11 learner Sipho Mthembu arrives at Duna Library, his local facility in Joza, Makhanda, on Monday afternoons, he’s not looking for books to borrow. Like thousands of learners across South Africa’s poorer provinces, he needs something more basic: a quiet place to study with working electricity — luxuries his home doesn’t provide. Yet the library closes at 5pm, soon after school ends.  The few computers lack educational resources.  Ther…