Two major organisations wrapped up Women’s Month on a high note by bringing information on HIV/Aids and gender-based violence to high school girls at a workshop at the Regent Hotel on Thursday.
Wongalethu High School pupils and the community of NU2 Mdantsane braved the blistering cold weather on Saturday to bid farewell to 16-year-old Owam Ntutu. Ntutu’s body was discovered in NU2 on the morning of August 7 after she was murdered, allegedly by her 31-year-old boyfriend. Sebenzile Xatasi of the Ubuntu Foundation said its aim was to work with men and boys in programmes to develop boys into men who would not be a threat to society.
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Despite the enormous challenges faced by the matric class of 2020, learners benefitting from the Promaths programme in the East London township of Mdantsane rose to the occasion to record remarkable performances in maths and physical science.
The arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa disrupted academic learning on an unprecedented scale, with the hard lockdown introduced in March last year proving to be especially taxing for matrics preparing for their all-important final exams.
Yet as it has done so successfully in previous years, the Promaths programme of the Kutlwanong Centre for Maths, Science and Technology (“Kutlwanong”) was not only able to steer learners through troubled waters , but deliver them exceptional results in these two “gateway” subjects.