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Former Madiba School receives electronic tablets

Grocott's MailBy Grocott's MailJanuary 30, 2014No Comments2 Mins Read
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Clarkebury Senior Secondary School's top 30 matric learners have all received electronic tablets from Ndileka Mandela, the late former president's daughter.

Clarkebury Senior Secondary School's top 30 matric learners have all received electronic tablets from Ndileka Mandela, the late former president's daughter.

School principal Ayanda Matshayana said the 30 matric pupils were being rewarded for their splendid results in last year’s exams having passed with Bachelors, having received their tablets on Friday 17 January.

Mandela was honouring a promise she had made in 2012 when visiting the Ngcobo-based school on Nelson Mandela's 18 July birthday said Matshayana.

“Ndileka said to the learners that if they could achieve greater than 90% she would reward them”.

The pupils rose to the occasion, delivering a 93% pass rate producing 30 Bachelor passes, 64 diplomas and 31 higher certificates.

A total of 125 pupils passed from the 138 that sat for the examinations.

ANC Secretary General in the province Oscar Mabuyane, had previously promised to buy an ox for the learners to be slaughtered at the school if they passed splendidly.

According to Matshayane, Mandela got the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) to convert two classrooms that were used by her late father in 1936-1937 into a R 6.7 million Science Lab in 2012.

When Matshayana took over the reins in 2008, the school consisrted of only 208 pupils with a matric pass rate of 16%.
In 2014 the school has a record pass rate of 93% with a total of 820 pupils.

“Parents now have confidence in the school and that is why we have these huge numbers because they see that we are top achievers”, said Matshayane.

Matshayane attributed the school’s good run in last year’s matric class to mutual commitment from both teachers and learners.

Samsung will hand over the tablets to the school on Friday 31 January, while the official handover ceremony will take place next week, said Mandela.

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