Author: Liza Kok

 South Africa has approximately 23,000 public schools, yet around 17,000 remain completely offline¹. That means only about 6,000 have some form of internet connectivity, while roughly 74% of public schools have no access at all – not for teaching and learning, not for research, not for school administration, and not for the digital tools that increasingly shape education and work. These numbers should alarm all of us. In a world where technology and connectivity are now basic table stakes in almost every career path, leaving schools offline is not a minor infrastructure gap. It is a structural disadvantage with serious…