E Surty and A Motshekga to hand over stationery to learners at Boschkop
Primary Farm School, 18 Apr

11 April 2006

The Deputy Minister of Education, Mr Enver Surty, together with the Gauteng
MEC for Education, Ms Angelina Motshekga, and the representatives of BIC South
Africa, will on Tuesday, 18 April 2006, at 09h30, officially hand over piles of
stationery to needy learners at the Boschkop Primary Farm School, East of
Pretoria.

The official hand-over ceremony follows the Memorandum of Understanding
signed between the Department of Education and BIC South Africa in 2004, in
which the latter was to place collection bins at selected retail outlets
throughout the country, for the community to donate all sorts of stationery
items.

The items were to be distributed to all needy Grade R – 3 classes in the
country.

Hundreds of learners from Boschkop Primary Farm school alone and thousands
others from neighbouring schools and countywide will benefit from the
event.

Media is invited.

The event will be held as follows:

Venue: Boschkop Primary Farm School (East of Pretoria)
Date: 18 April 2006
Time: 09h30

Enquiries:
Ashwin Syme
Deputy Minister’s spokesperson
Tel: (021) 465 5513
Cell: 073 232 5908
E-mail: syme.a@doe.gov.za

Pinky Mollson
BIC South Africa representative
Tel: (011) 447 4994

Issued by: Department of Education
11 April 2006