Uppruna tekstur - Enskt - He walked the mile from Masjaing to Fouriesbourg,...

He walked the mile from Masjaing to Fouriesbourg, the far wealthier town on the other side of the highway. There, he announced that he wanted a better education than he could get at Masjaing's uninspiring local high school, from which few students ever graduate, and that he wished to enroll in the eighth grade.
The townships are poverty traps in a nation where the rich-poor is among the widest on earth.