The Free State Department of Education in partnership with Kagiso Trust (KT) and Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ABSA) will host infrastructure launches among five schools in QwaQwa, Thabo Mofutsanyane district.
Creating keen interest among learners in subjects such as mathematics and science is a key feature of this collaborative effort. The infrastructure launches will include the installation of media centres (which encompass a combination of a computer centre and a library) at Thlorong and Moteka Secondary Schools; refurbishing and equipping of the science laboratories at Thlorong, Moteka, Tsebo and Reahola Secondary Schools as well as a setting up of a fully equipped one of the many ways the Beyers Naude Schools Development Programme (BNDSP) is contributing towards equipping learners with vital skills as well as quality education.
Date: 4 September 2009
Venue: Thlorong Secondary School, Qwaqwa, Thabo Mofutsanyane district
Infrastructure: media centres and science laboratory
Time: 10h00 to 14h00
The BNDSP, in partnership with Dreamfields will also host a sports tournament and debate competition on 3 September 2009, as a way of motivating and encouraging learners, to participate in extra mural activities that are often completely absent in rural schools. All ten schools affiliated with the BNSDP in Qwaqwa will be awarded full soccer and netball kits.
Please be informed that Kagiso Trust will also host a stakeholders dinner on 3 September at Mont d’ Or Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre in Clarens. The intention of the dinner is to hold a roundtable discussion and to present a high level report on the impact and future of the Beyers Naude Schools Development Programme.
The media is hereby invited to attend these prestigious events.
For further enquiries:
Solly Magalefa
Cell: 082 573 3404
Tel: 051 404 8314
Fax to e-mail: 086 545 0569
E-mail: magalefasr@edu.fs.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Education, Free State Provincial Government
2 September 2009
