Smart Girl - 6 Jan 09

Smart Girl
gushes the interviewer
on morning radio speaking
to a high-scoring
rural matriculant

Smart Girl
distinctions in all
subjects she took
including mathematics

Smart Girl
putting paid to
notion about girls
and their place

Smart Girl
well on her way
to a university

Smart Girl
focus, she says
apply yourself, too,
you can do it

Smart Girls
top the matric list
in this province

Smart Girls
applaud them and those
who made it and those
who tried and did not

Smart Girls
at smart schools
with all the resources
at their fingertips

When will all schools
be as smart as them

Post-matric results, Sunday January 04 2008, the SAFM Sunday Morning AMLive show host, babbling animatedly on a bit more incoherently than usual, in an interview with a high-scoring Grade 12 learner from a rural village. In the babble, I caught neither her name, the area she is from, nor the name of her school. Sorry!