You are at:Home»EDUCATION»Motivation, commitment lifts Makhanda matrics
Khutliso Daniels Secondary achieved a 78% matric pass rate. Teachers (back, from left) Mkhuseli Mhlekwa, Lungelwa Mayalo, Maud Siaw, Thembesile Sandi, Vuyiswa Mthetho, Mthuthuzeli Msipa, Lungelwa Deliwe; (front from left) Zonwabele Mcuba, Nomthandazo Planga, Siyanda Tyobashe, Thantaswa Ndzena. Photo: Sue Maclennan Motivation, commitment lifts Makhanda matrics
Highly motivated learners who had each other’s backs; teachers and principals who gave their all; strong support from the business and education community, and parents who bought into the project are the common factors among Makana’s record-breaking Matric 2020 schools.
Khutliso Daniels Principal Zonwabele ‘Radio’ Ncuba says consistency and the fact that he handles discipline and organisational matters means teachers are freed to teach. Photo: Sue Maclennan
weigh in, that s going to have a fallout. an interesting sort of follow-up to the very public and active role they played in the nra debate. thank you. a shift on gun control part of the chaos of the white house this week. the question now, can the administration get back to business as usual? careen jean pierre, michelle barnard. corrine, let s start with you. i draw from the story of the chaos in the white house. describing president trump s zigzagging positions on gun control. i guess you could say the first zig at the meeting in the white house. what s your sense of the president s position on gun policy and republicans today? look. when it comes to donald trump and the republicans, they re owned by the nra. that is not going to change. when you look at how much of financial support donald trump
michelle, last question to you. i wonder who you re listening to or how much personnel matters at this point. there was as you said listening to the president, take him at his words. hope hicks the communications director who often acted as a defacto oval office therapist announced her resignation last week leaving behind a team that the president views more as paid staff than surrogate family. how do they affect the policy direction? it s difficult to tell. you know, we get the impression that hope hicks was the president s quasi therapist and babysitter in the white house and now on the heels of her departure seeing what i think psychologists might call micro aggressions coming out of the white house. that being said, i think the president is his own policy director. i don t think that there is anyone whose advice he takes other than himself and probably people in the white house advising him but time and time again we see that donald trump is going to do what donald trump