Johannesburg — Thirteen years ago a secondary school in Soweto, South Africa's most populous black urban residential area, was little different from the majority of the country's schools: dilapidated, under staffed and crime ridden, with the vast majority of its students struggling to pass their exams.
But in the last decade the Bhukulani Secondary School has undergone a metamorphosis, with its matriculation pass rate surging from 21.5 percent to nearly 98 percent last year, no mean feat for a school still trying to shake off the legacy of apartheid's unequal education system.
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