Testing Hope: Grade 12 In The New South Africa
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Follows four students in Nyanga Township in their last year of high school. Theirs is the first graduating class who entered school in 1994, the year apartheid ended. While this is the new South Africa, many vestiges of apartheid persist. Many families live in shacks, several homes lack running water and electricity, and the average household income is $3,000 per year.
Media Details
Runtime: 40 minutes 10 seconds
- Topic: Business, Education, Geography, Social Science
- Subtopic: General Education, Globalism, Multiculturalism, South Africa
- Grade/Interest Level: 10 - 12
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- Release Year: 2007
- Producer/Distributor: Filmakers Library, Inc
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