ICT Barries in Soth African Education.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is pervasive in tertiary education, commerce and industries, yet many disadvantaged rural areas lag behind in technological development. For example; in rural schools students have weak ICT due to lack of integration and the compatibility of IT system and progress. Lack of technical support and communication also play bad role in rural schools.

Our country is facing a huge challenge when comes to ICT, especially rural schools; most townships schools students emerge computer skills in primary school as we all know that township schools are surrounded by computers and most of township teachers are being trained to integrate computers. Despite some extreme variation, schools in Gauteng have better ICT infrastructure than schools in Mpumalanga.

The principal factors that prevent rural schools from using computers as a tool for teaching and learning are:

- Insufficient funds in schools found in rural areas
- Insufficient number of computers
- Lack of computer literacy among teachers
- Lack of subject teachers trained to integrate computers into different learning areas
- The absence of a properly developed curriculum for teaching computer skills

Each and every South African schools must have equal access when comes to teaching and learning apparatus because educations aim is to help prepare students for the future. Schools must assert that there is need for teachers to use computers before schools start to use them

I did my matric at Mpuluzi High School ( 2012 ). I was in the Historian class, teaching was good expect that  there was no technology due to that the school is located is the heart of rural areas of Mpumalanga. The worse thing is that even the teachers which taught us did not have clue about Technology, In cases of Research assignments we had to go to an internet cafe where we had to pay. When the school needed some information from the internet they had to ask for assist from other people which were not part of the school team.