Expensive braille machine for Rivoni School

The Rivoni School for the Blind in Elim received a mayor boost towards the educating and learning process when the Transport Education Training Authority (TETA) donated a Braille printing machine for the school's use.

The Braillo machine, which cost R462 000, was handed to the school during an event at Rivoni Society for the Blind on last Thursday. The CEO of TETA, Mrs Maphefo Anno-Frempong said that giving back to the community is a calling for them. “We take it as a calling to provide services such as educational resources and opportunities for young children,” she said.

See a more comprehensive report of the event in our printed edition, that will be available on Thursday.

Read the full article here.

Date:12 June 2017

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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