Kasi Kids

The world doesn’t expect much from us as a child growing up in the townships of South Africa today. The private sector is looking to you to become their waiters, cashiers and shop assistants. The government is looking at you to clean the streets, lay bricks on construction sites and if you are vocal enough, to lobby on behalf of their party during election periods. No one is looking at you and seeing the next CEO, a lawyer or doctor. As a girl, they already know you will fall pregnant by the time you are 20 and will drop out of school and a boy, you will become part of the reason the security industry and gated communities are blossoming. The best they can hope for you, is that you consider a career as an educator, after all, who will come back and teach in the dilapidated schools that you are a product of