Eastern Cape’s forgotten schools: Day 1

Equal Education activist Julian Kesler on Wednesday told the Mail & Guardian about his first day on the non-governmental organisation’s three-day tour of some of the Eastern Cape’s forgotten schools. The tour, known as the Solidarity Visit – which will be led by Archbishop Thabo Makgoba and supported by Equal Education – will focus on the learning conditions schoolchildren and teachers face across the province. Here is a run-down of the first day.

Putuma?'s dilapidated classrooms
It's 11.30pm and the town we are staying in, Mthatha, is quiet. Today was the first day of the Solidarity Visit to Eastern Cape schools.