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Education empowers

Schools throughout the country have jumped on board the technology train with the roll-out of the Teacher Laptop Initiative. The initiative allows teachers to use a laptop to gather information, share ideas and learn from each other to improve the quality of education in classrooms.

Thousands of young people in a rural Mpumalanga municipality will benefit from a new youth advisory centre.

The Ntunda Youth Centre was set up at Ntunda Village in Nkomazi Local Municipality outside Malelane in Mpumalanga to provide facilities, resources, information and skills to local out of school and school-going youth.

Education empowers

What do you want to be when you grow up?” This is a question children hear from a young age. Making a career choice is one of the most important decisions a learner makes. It is therefore very important that learners have the necessary information and advice before deciding what they want to do. The Department of Higher Education is going all out to help young people make the right choices.

Chronic poverty and hunger due to a lack of jobs in the deep rural village of Ha-Matsila in Limpopo is now in the past. Job-creation projects in the area are blowing new life in to the community.

The Matsila Community Farming Project in Limpopo is giving new life to this area where many people have been struggling to make a living in the past.

The Western Cape provincial government is building new schools, upgrading existing ones and adding classrooms to others as part of its commitment to ensure quality teaching and learning.

Twenty-five new schools and hundreds of additional classrooms will be built in the Western Cape over the next three years as part of wiping out the backlog in schools infrastructure in the province.

“I am so excited about the increase, it is not that much but it will make a difference. At least I will be able to buy school uniforms in January,” said Sarah Nkomo, a domestic worker in Mbombela. Precious Nkosi, a contract cleaner at the Mbombela local municipality, urged the Labour Department to do inspections because some employers normally don’t comply with wage increases.

National Book Week is celebrated from 6 to 13 September. It is an initiative of the South African Book Development Council (SABDC) in collaboration with the Department of Arts and Culture to make South Africa a reading nation. The celebrations coincide with International Literacy Day on 8 September.

Towards the end of 2011, a total of 140 868 jobs were created across the 12 Action Plans, said Premier Nomvula Mokonyane. 

The Gauteng Provincial Government reported that of these jobs, 3 668 were permanent against the annual target of 26 140, while 33 064 were temporary jobs against the annual target of 58 001 and 104 136 were from the Expanded Public Works Programme against the annual target of 143 380. 

Education empowers

Kha Ri Gude means “let us learn” in Tshivenda. It is also the name of a mass literacy campaign that aims to teach 4,7 million adults above the age of 15 years to become literate and numerate. Since 2008, the campaign has helped to create about 75 000 short-term jobs by equipping almost a million learners with literacy skills.