NAMIBIA: "No Wonder Our Pass Rate Is So Poor"

"God looked at my work and he was pleased. But when he looked at my salary, he wept," says the computer-generated poster in Norbert Booi's office at A. Shipena Secondary School, a government school in Windhoek's oldest suburb, Katutura. The poster speaks volumes about what is going through the English teacher's head as he pages through the classified sections of the 'Republikein', one of Namibia's three daily newspapers.