‘When you have love, you have hope,’ says Asemahle Sentiwe, a tutor at the nonprofit Imibala Trust. The organisation has been giving hope to South African children in need for more than two decades, in the form of school uniforms, training programmes and a safe space in which to learn.
With an imported sprung floor, expert acoustics, a double barre and walls of mirrors, the ballet studio at the Imibala Trust village in Bright Street, Somerset West, offers disadvantaged children the opportunity to learn and practice dance in a brand-new facility launched late last month (November).
Aimed at bridging the gap between matric and university mathematics, two local organisations have joined forces to introduce a one-of-a-kind pilot project that seeks to teach coding as a 21st-century educational skill.