On Monday, 5 October 2009, MEC for Education in the Western Cape Donald Grant will be paying tribute to our province’s teachers on World Teachers Day.
The celebrations will begin at Vuzamanzi Primary in Khayelitsha where the MEC will be presented with copies of a "Thank you teacher" book provided by various sponsors. The book comprises a collection of messages from learners to their teachers and was conceptualised by Eddie Kirsten, Director of Human Capital Development and sponsored by the Oxford University Press and ABC printing.
The Western Cape Education Department will distribute the "Thank you teacher book" to all the schools throughout the Western Cape next week. MEC Grant will present the book to the teachers of Vuzamanzi Primary and Bulumko Secondary. He will then join +/- 300 teachers at a celebratory event in Hanover Park in the afternoon.
Visits are as follows:
Time: 10h00
School: Vuzamanzi Primary, Khayelitsha
Time: 11h20
School: Bulumko Secondary, Khayelitsha
Time: 13h30
School: Mount View High School, Hanover Park
Media enquiries:
Bronagh Casey
Cell: 072 724 1422
E-mail: brcasey@pgwc.gov.za
