Poverty in South Africa is a factor of population size and job availability.
Stars are impressive physical and chemical reactions. They constantly burn through their fuel until the good fuel is replaced by ok fuel and then finally by bad fuel which causes the star to explode and/or implode.
Human settlements work the same way. The population grows and uses up resources. A small population migrates to more resources when those in their area start running out. When the new resources are being used by other humans, a war ensues. A large population of country size in todays world cannot do this easily so the resources run out and the country first explodes then implodes.
Right now South Africa is running on bad fuel. Since a country is a mental construct, the bad fuel is a mix of Marxism with SJW additives and a belief that more children brings a better chance at prosperity.
There is a strong belief that bad men in suits are hoarding all the good resources and that there is enough to go around. That is just not the case. The population size has reached the point that, would we be animals in a national park, the game rangers would be desperately culling the herd to bring balance and prevent the ecological disaster.
Unless there is a drastic reduction of population size in South Africa, and by drastic I mean more than 30%, this country will explode and then implode leaving nothing but starvation and misery.
These screaming children wanting no fee increases are just feeling the start of the pain coming to this country sooner than you think.
Before you start with your more education will solve this problem, the chances are so slim that it's almost zero. The only way that education fixes this problem is if someone comes up with a revolutionary new economic ecology like what happened with the internet AND manages to keep it in South Africa with it's business toxic environment, and hundreds of thousands of successful entrepreneurs pop up to take advantage of this new ecology, then the course will not change.
This really saddens me but you reap what you sow. I hope you SJW types are happy with your results.