Since the founding of the Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society (SACHES) 33 years ago, in 1991, and the founding of its journal in the Southern African Review of Education almost thirty years ago, equal education opportunities have been front can centre.  While the trinity of inequality, that is socio-economic descent (class), gender and race/ethnicity have received much attention, one other dimension of inequality, namely rural-urban inequality has been neglected.  While the education system of China is customarily in Comparative Education take as the textbook example of urban-rural inequality in education, urban-rural disparities in education is universal, In the Southern African region too urban-rural inequalities in education, as well as the contextual ecologies of rural areas and the implications thereof for education, have not come to its right in the Comparative Education research agenda. Therefore, manuscripts for this Special Issue are invited.  While manuscripts focusing on Southern Africa would be very welcome, so would manuscripts be dealing with theoretical-conceptual issues, as well as manuscripts focusing on rural-urban disparities in other parts of the world, especially Africa and other parts of the Global South.