 We end this part of the audiotape with a personal account of someone whose life changes illustrate this point vividly My name is Pumzilem Lungwana. I was born in East London at the age of 13 I Moved to stay with my aunt Things were even tougher because I had to look after cattle and we had to go and plow there we would plow in the mornings and After school as well Our schedule was according to the moon It doesn't matter if moonlight is at 2 a.m. In the morning and your last shift was 9 in the evening At 10 in the evening as soon the moonlight is out and you go back to work They still be you still expected to perform at school the next day Those were very hard times My performance was very very weak at school even the school principal and the other teachers were complaining about my work But nobody cared to do anything about it. I Think I was the worst student at school and I would feel embarrassed about it Working in the field was the first priority and looking after the cattle School was not important for them Well, I felt like I'm a slave. I even told my man. I don't want to live this life anymore My mother was working in Johannesburg and she would only come back when she's on leave. That's when I Suggested to her that I need to go to the boring school because I can't live like this anymore And then she took me to a boring school the teachers were very effective who were giving homeworks regularly and We would do Regulatests and exercises so I was more involved in my school work than I Experienced previously working mostly as a child than Studying by that meaning working at home doing plowing and looking after kettles so that's what was different and That's how the life at the boring school was for me Because we also had study hours from 7 to 9 p.m. We would go for a study hour Which was compulsory I think the school was fully equipped Because for the first time I experienced working in a laboratory whereby I would experiment some of the things which I'm reading from the textbook and We I think we had everything the the chemicals everything that one would need to use for especially for scientific experiments, which is chemistry Most of the things were demonstrated to us. We had audio visual material that was used. I remember we would watch videotapes for science and mathematics We used to watch video material for biology as well which I find very helpful and Encouraging because I remember even during school holidays I would feel that I'm encouraged to go to even a winter school at some stage I went to a winter school at Vitz because I became so enthusiastic about my education in fact when I was a student I wanted to to be an engineer I Had passion for medicine physical science and I was good in those subjects because those those were subjects. I really liked but true time I changed my mind because our School took us to Kremstein Arts Festival and then my mind just changed. I wanted to be an artist Then I decided I must find out what must I study in order to be an artist then I went to drama school at Vitz