Education is one of the themes in the play.Discuss how his theme is relevant to Mr M.

Informally known as Mr. M, he is a highly-respected and beloved teacher at Zolile High School in Camdeboo during Apartheid-era South Africa. Mr. M is Thami’s favorite teacher (and the latter is his favorite student) and he desperately wants Thami to succeed, but fears that his involvement with a bad crowd will bring him down. As a result, he tries to get Isabel to work with Thami in an interschool literary competition in the hope of landing a scholarship for his favorite student. Mr. M sees education a the key for the black youth in South Africa.

All of the characters are either teachers or students, and the traditional relationship between teachers and students is shown through the characters of Thami and Mr. M. Mr. M keeps an emotionally distant relationship and often tells Isabel that he will tell Thami what to do rather than ask him. Secretly, Mr. M tells Isabel that Thami is his favorite student and that his biggest goal, after all his years of teaching, is for Thami to succeed.