NEW: SA's most crowded school: 200 pupils in one class

More than 200 pupils cram into a single classroom at what could be South Africa's most overcrowded school.

The 205 teenagers in Grade 11E at St Patrick's Senior Secondary School in Libode in the Eastern Cape sit shoulder to shoulder in the poorly-ventilated classroom, as many as five sharing a double desk.

One Grade 10 class is so full that pupils sit on chairs with their books on their laps because there is no space for desks.


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