How funding apartheid fails young library users

The Mail & Guardian | 13.12.2025 11:00
When Grade 11 learner Sipho Mthembu arrives at Duna Library, his local facility in Joza, Makhanda, on Monday afternoons, he’s not looking for books to borrow. Like thousands of learners across South Africa’s poorer provinces, he needs something more basic: a quiet place to study with working electricity — luxuries his home doesn’t provide.