S.African students return to new library

Children returning to classes in southeastern South Africa Monday have a new library, part of a campaign to improve education in impoverished rural areas of the country.

Sakhisizwe Primary School in the Mount Ayliff area, some 250 miles (400 kilometers) south of Johannesburg, doesn't have running water. But it now has a library with 956 shiny new books in Xhosa, English and Afrikaans.

The South African National Library's Centre for the Book raised 400,000 rand (about $55,000) from the Nedbank Foundation for Sakhisizwe's library, which is shared by five schools in this region of the Eastern Cape. Some children travel 25 miles (40 kilometers) to use …