A Sad One from South Africa where A snap survey of township high school libraries has revealed that nine out of 10 are permanently locked, have no books, or are non-existent.
Libraries at the high schools contacted in Khayelitsha, Nyanga and Philippi showed that four had no library books whatsoever while in the other five the books were either outdated or stored in boxes and inaccessible to the pupils.
“nine out of 10 are
“nine out of 10 are permanently locked, have no books, or are non-existent”
Maybe if they discounted non-existent libraries the stats would improve.