22 July 2006
The handover of Mampho Senior Secondary School brought celebration and joy
to the Migdol farming community as North West Public Works MEC for Public
Works, honourable Howard Yawa delivered the R6,7 million school building
project today.
Farm workers and their children had every reason to dance as the 15 class
roomed school has brought an end to seven years of multi class teaching,
plattooning and overcrowding that the 640 learners from Glaudina, Delareyville,
Witpan, Migdol new settlement and surrounding farms endured.
Speaking at the handover function, MEC Yawa said that the completion of the
school brings to four the number of school building projects delivered by his
Department to the Department of Education in the past month. He said that his
Department has already delivered the new Clinton Garden Primary School in
Ga-Mmotla Village, the extension of 12 classrooms at Michael Modisakeng
Secondary School and Adam Masebe Secondary School in Majakaneng and Themba
respectively.
Yawa announced that his department will hand over the newly built Father
Smangaliso Mkhatshwa Comprehensive High School in Winterveldt next Thursday and
Reabetswe Senior Secondary School in Ipelegeng Township near Schweizer-Reneke
on 1 August 2006.
He said that there is no turning back on service excellence for his
Department as all of these projects were delivered three months ahead of
schedule. âWe have embraced and entrenched a new culture of service excellence.
Forward planning and project monitoring are key in our service provision. The
new culture that we have developed knows no postponement of what can be done
today for tomorrow,â he added.
The MEC said that the handover of the school was a celebration of
partnership between government and farm workers in Migdol and a demonstration
of governmentâs commitment to improve services to all communities. He further
said that while yesterday represented hopelessness and despair for farm
workers, today represents a new age of hope and tomorrow an opportunity for
growth and development.
He concluded by urging parents to make the school work in order to produce
future leaders, doctors, engineers, technologists and agriculturists.
Contact:
Lesiba Moses Kgwele
Tel: (018) 387 2447
Fax: (018) 387 2868
Cell: 083 629 1987
E-mail: LKgwele@nwpg.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Public Works, North West Provincial
Government
22 July 2006
