Construction starts at Tshikota school

The community of  the Tshikota township outside Louis Trichardt is optimistic that their children will soon have access to a new school. Construction of the new secondary school buildings started a few months ago.

Up to now, high school children had to be catered for at the Masedi Combined School, which had insufficient classrooms, because there was no separate secondary school in the township.

The secretary of the steering committee, Ms Pinky Rammutla, expressed her joy and happiness when she saw the new classrooms taking shape. This was during her routine visit on Friday last week.

“We are very happy about what is happening,” she said. “There's no greater joy for parents than witnessing the construction of a new school in their lifetime. This only tells us that our children will now have enough space at a learning institution. It will be a place that they will call a home for the years which they spend in the school before moving to tertiary levels.”

The spokesperson for the Limpopo Department of Education, Dr Bernard Rasila, said that the government had handed over the site to contractors on 2 April 2014 to start building the Tshikota Secondary School, as part of infrastructure development.

“It is expected that the school building will be complete on 2 May 2015,” Rasila said. “The plan is to open the school for learning and teaching just after completion.”

He added that the Limpopo Department of Education was continuously making sure that, along with its sister departments, the school infrastructure delivery was spruced up to make sure accessibility to education by all became a reality.

“We continue to call on community members to be part of their children’s education and to guard against any form of hindering educational processes,” he said.

Date:20 February 2015

By: Tshifhiwa Mukwevho

Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.

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