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Mokhudu Machaba is one of the finalists in the Global Teacher Prize. She is a teacher at the Ngwanamago Primary School in GaMothiba, Limpopo. She overcame great odds including a teenage pregnancy to qualify as a teacher and is now applying technology in her lessons to foundation phase learners. (Photo: Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)
EDUCATION

Q&A Sessions: ‘A good teacher must love the kids’

As a child, Mokhudu Machaba had to cross a flooded river on her way to school in rural Limpopo. She fell pregnant at 15 but returned to complete her matric and found employment…

  • Lucas Ledwaba
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