GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

 A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.
GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts.

A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.
GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework.

Geography is the science of our world.  Coupled with GIS, geography is helping us to better understand the earth and apply geographic knowledge to a host of human activities.  The outcome is the emergence of The Geographic Approach—a new way of thinking and problem solving that integrates geographic information into how we understand and manage our planet. This approach allows us to create geographic knowledge by measuring the earth, organizing this data, and analyzing and modeling various processes and their relationships. The Geographic Approach also allows us to apply this knowledge to the way we design, plan, and change our world.

A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.
GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal



relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts.
A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.
GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework.

Geography is the science of our world.  Coupled with GIS, geography is helping us to better understand the earth and apply geographic knowledge to a host of human activities.  The outcome is the emergence of The Geographic Approach—a new way of thinking and problem solving that integrates geographic information into how we understand and manage our planet. This approach allows us to create geographic knowledge by measuring the earth, organizing this data, and analyzing and modeling various processes and their relationships. The Geographic Approach also allows us to apply this knowledge to the way we design, plan, and change our world.

EDUCATION SYSTEM FAILING IN SA

The education system in South Africa is to blame for the low matriculation pass rates, lack of skills and critical thinking, poverty and high crime rates because of its ineffectiveness and irrelevance to the South African context.

The leading cause of failure in South Africa is that people do not understand the language that is used in education. It is common knowledge among people who have set foot in the township or rural schools, that the learners undeniably do not understand the English language, they cannot use it to verbally express themselves or write effectively. Yet this same language remains the language of teaching.

English is a native language to only about 10% of the South African population, the rest of the population are native speakers of the other 11 official languages of South Africa, which they use every day as primary languages. English is only used at schools for about eight hours a day five days a week, it is not only taught as a language but the language that all teaching is conducted in, which means that a person’s success or failure in school is determined by their proficiency in English.