
Hundreds of thousands of learners across South Africa made their way to schools for the first day of the third term on Tuesday. For Zodwa Malatji and her children, just getting to school is a daily battle.
“I want my children to get an education and not end up as waste pickers like myself,” says Malatji.
Malatji and her four children, aged eight, ten, 14 and 16, live in a one-room shack with plastic for a roof at Plastic City informal settlement on the outskirts of Brakpan. They share a communal toilet with ten other households.