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In failing states, like SA, teachers need to play an expanded fostering role | SA News

In broken societies, as South Africa is, teachers are even more critical in shaping well-rounded young citizens equipped to navigate complex individual, relationship, workplace and societal challenges.

South Africa has often been talked about as a country on the verge of becoming a failed state, when a state is captured by corrupt individuals, where the state cannot, or its leaders lack the will to enforce the rule of law, cannot protect its citizens and struggles to provide the most basic public services, unable fill a pothole or replace a pit latrine at a school.

A broken society is where social order has broken down, moral values have collapsed and traditional family structures that…

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