Stunning beaches, impoverished townships, vast potential and a persistent sense of crisis - welcome to Bitou, a place that seems to encapsulate many of South Africa's enduring contradictions.
The "achievement gap" is not about the ability of students to succeed, but rather, about the ways in which generations of deficient public schools have robbed children of their real academic potential; impoverished families cannot send their kids to private schools, hire tutors and coaches, spend money on all of the perks that open pathways to elite colleges.
Some of the key findings in the report, include the following: "It is imperative that we now sharpen our focus and intensify our efforts to holistically address these issues and unleash these impoverished children's potential; that is the only way we will realise our national vision of Uganda being a middle income country by 2040," Minister Madada added.
Within this school, SHOFCO targets a variety of components crucial to the empowerment process, providing a combination of education, free healthcare, nutritional, community services and psychosocial services to impoverished yet high-potential female students.
Readers evidently identified with its brave but impoverished heroine, who mulls potential moneymaking scams like offloading her Gucci python print bags to be auctioned at Sotheby's.
Dinah was the 11-year-old student who became her personal project, a child from an impoverished home who had potential but, in Rose's eyes, needed a savior.
She has received countless awards and honorary degrees for her dedication to bettering urban policy and unlocking the economic potential of impoverished communities.
Balletbo is realistic about the hotel's prospects while still optimistic about its symbolic potential in blockaded, impoverished Gaza.
A key area is the western boundary fence, which borders hundreds of thousands of impoverished villages and is a potential way into the protected parks network for poachers.
His books, including "The Mystery of Capital," have laid out a blueprint for freeing the untapped entrepreneurial potential of Latin America's impoverished masses.
