SOUTH Africa will lose more than 300_000 of its schoolchildren to Aids in the next ten years, Mpumalanga education MEC Craig Padayachee has warned. “It is estimated that 300_000 learners at all schools and 30 000 in Mpumalanga will die in the next 10 years,” he said at the handover of new classrooms at Mvuso Primary School in Mhluzi, near Middelburg. Padayachee said that his department would introduce sexual education at school and that some teachers were already being trained. 36 million people are infected with HIV worldwide, with 4,2 million of those in South Africa. – African Eye News Service