With the aim of improving education in the rural areas of KwaZulu-Natal, the Department of Education officially opened St Patrick’s J.S. School at Khayeka location under Sisonke District on 17 August 2013.
The school has eight new classrooms & two multipurpose classrooms, two new Grade R classrooms, kitchen, 14 new toilets with running water, media room, computer room, garden tools storage room, an administration block with two sick rooms, a print room, stock room and reception area.
This state of the art school was officially opened by the Member of the Education Portfolio Committee in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature Mr Sipho (KK) Nkosi, who asked the community to look after and take good care of the school as it is their own school. "We as the Government promised to come back to Sisonke District to do away with the mud schools, today I’m proud to come and officially open a very beautiful school like this - one that can be compared with schools in urban areas" said Nkosi.
