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Social entrepreneurs with Waahida Tolbert and Thulani Mbatha have taken it upon themselves to provide quality private education for children in Alexandra township, Johannesburg.

Kgololo Academy, in the heart of impoverished Alex, is a typical example of the success of applying good quality education in any situation in order to uplift humankind.

From D.C. to Johannesburg, a teacher confronts pasts of profound racial inequality. After teaching in D.C. public schools for five years, Waahida Tolbert-Mbatha moved to Johannesburg in 2011.

Kgololo Academy: Grooming confident future university students from Grade R

Since the end of apartheid, income disparities have increased in the country. The public school system fails to offer a correct level of education to the poorest. In the township of Alexandra, one of the poorest and most populated in Johannesburg, a private school is trying to lift children out of poverty.