Local pupils to benefit from KSCC’s donation

The pupils at three schools near Makhado (Louis Trichardt) and a centre for the blind benefited from the donation of computers which were recently presented to them.

Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre (KSCC) donated the computers. The schools which benefited are Ozias Davhana Secondary (20), Makhado Comprehensive High (10), Masedi Combined (10), Takalani Children's Home (5) and Rivoni School for the Blind (9).

According to KSCC's prison director, Mr Lazarus Ncongwane, the donation comes as a gesture of social responsibility from the facility.  “We noticed that many schools were struggling and unable to give computer skills to learners due to a lack of computers,” he said. “Then we knew that it was our social responsibility to equip these schools' computer labs.”

Ncongwane added that they also had donated computers to Takalani Children's Home and Rivoni School for the Blind, so that the beneficiaries at these two centres could also have access to new technology. “We are living in times that demand for each one of us to be computer literate in order to get along well with the different modes of communication,” he added.

The deputy principal at Makhado Comprehensive High School, Ms Matenzhe Dagada, said the donation of the computers would enhance the pupils' scope of learning. “This gift only indicates that SACM (South African Custodial Management) believes in education and our pupils. We are living in a world of digital technology where it has become a must for each school to have a well-equipped computer laboratory,” she added

During an official hand-over of a computer laboratory at Ozias Davhana Secondary School on Friday, the school's principal, Mr Morris Chauke, said that the school had never received a donation of this kind before.

"We appreciate the service which you are rendering inside the prison by correcting the mindsets of our jailed brothers, uncles and parents," Chauke said. "We also request you to send ex-prisoners to come and speak with our pupils, so that not a single child gets tempted to do crime."

Date:06 June 2014

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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