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One School at a Time

OSAAT founder and chairperson Pepe Marais speaks to Polity's Sane Dhlamini about the One School at a Time initiative. (Camera & Editing: Darlene Creamer)

15th May 2015

By: Sane Dhlamini
Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor and Researcher

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In South Africa, there are 27 000 schools, of which 22 000 are dysfunctional and which contribute annually to an already dysfunctional society.*

One School at a Time (OSAAT) believes that a proper solution for education can deliver a solution for poverty and crime. It is their belief that teachers, through a functional educational system, will become the engine that drives the change in every social and economic challenge that South Africa faces today.

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Our purpose is to create an educational system that is a shining example to the world. OSAAT's short-term goal, set in 2007, is to transform its partner school, Forte High School, to a level that will deliver a pass rate of 100% with 60% of the learners receiving university exemption by the end of 2015.

And their next goal is to implement the same projects that are working at Forte High School at Itirele-Zenzele Comprehensive School, their second partner school.

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By using Forte High as its incubation school, OSAAT will continue to develop and test projects that support its vision of a greater education for all in South Africa.

* The Joint Education Trust

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