During World Food Month, EduPlant announced that Gqeberha’s Mfesane Secondary had the best school garden in SA, with Elufefeni Primary winning the best in the province.
This World Food Month, Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA), in partnership with Tiger Brands, proudly announced the champions of the EduPlant Finals Competition, an occasion that celebrates the outstanding achievements of schools in the realm of permaculture food gardening for food security and envi.
Using the power of visual arts and everyday language to drive home the importance of saving water, two friends, working from a back room in Motherwell, have put together a video which has already reached 100,000 views online since Sunday.
Greenville Primary School in Gqeberha made headlines in recent weeks when irate parents shut the school and staged rolling protests over its appalling condition. Broken windows, doors, smashed ceilings and dilapidated classrooms were just some of the issues that caused emotions to boil over at the Bethelsdorp school.
After all the doom and gloom at the start of the school year, hundreds of Nelson Mandela Bay pupils finally received some relief when the new Mfesane Secondary School was handed over to the community.