{
  "id": 145369,
  "title": "EMPTY CLASSROOMS: Millions wasted on rural white elephant schools with no learners",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/empty-classrooms-millions-wasted-on-rural-white-elephant-schools-with",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-04T21:04:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Maverick",
    "slug": "daily-maverick",
    "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-08-04-millions-wasted-on-rural-white-elephant-schools-with-no-learners/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Fruitless R4m spent on now unused rural school builds, highlighting school infrastructure failures as pupils migrate to Gauteng and the Western Cape, worsening urban overcrowding.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}