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Fred Matiang'i is on the right track

Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i

Duty has brought me to China. Allow me to start with a short true Chinese horror story, which was on the front pages of the dailies in Beijing on Thursday.

The chilling story goes that in 1976, an earthquake of the magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale flattened the industrial city of Tangshan.

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