Grahamstown Primary School (Grahamstown)

Grahamstown Primary School, eita. Ten teachers for 268 kids. TEN. Bra, that is not a school, that is one teacher standing on a chair trying to be seen by 27 humans at the same time. Load shedding hits and suddenly you have got one educator, no lights, and roughly the population of a small taxi rank all looking at the board. The teacher is not teaching at this point, the teacher is surviving. And the description, shame man, they really tried. "Follows the national NSC/CAPS curriculum." Bru that is like a restaurant saying "we serve food." Yes, we know, that is the minimum requirement, you do not get a gold star for that. They also made sure to tell us there are no boarding facilities, which, fair enough, with ten teachers you cannot be expected to also watch these children sleep. Eluxolweni, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. The Eastern Cape does not play, everyone knows it, and this school is out there in the thick of it with a skeleton crew and zero fees, which means zero budget, which means the tuck shop is probably just someone's gogo selling fat cakes from a plastic bag and honestly that is the best part of the whole school day. Overall verdict: Grahamstown Primary is basically the Springbok of no-fee schools, doing the most with the least, and somehow still standing.