On April Fool's day, GroundUp published a story which claimed that government had made it compulsory for teacher graduates to provide their services in non-model C government schools for one year.
Despite being an April fool's joke, the response to GroundUp's prank showed that few university educated teachers want to teach in township schools. This is highly problematic in the context of the current education climate, where quality education is not a reality for many South African youth living and going to school in townships and rural areas.
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