Central SA
Two-day school shoes handover kicks off in North West─── TSHEHLA KOTELI 10:19 Tue, 14 Feb 2023
Pupils in North West will receive school shoes from the Speaker of the Provincial Legislature, Basetsana Dantjie, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Dantjie will today be in the Moretele Local Municipality handing over the shoes to three different schools - Ikaneng High School in E1 Zone 5, Sutelong; Kosea-Moeka Primary School in E878 Zone 3, Moeka Village; and Tk Mokonyane Primary School in 3576 Clinton Garden, Ga-Motla.
Tomorrow she will be in the Kotane Local Municipality at the Kameelboom Primary School in Kameelboom, Stad Section. It is explained that the handovers are part of the commitments made during the Mandela Day commemorations on 18 July 2022 and recent school visits.
ALSO READ: North West school receive bathroom facilities
Recently, Poelano Secondary School in Goedgevonden Village, Ventersdorp, received newly constructed bathroom facilities from the Public Investment Corporation (PIC).
The PIC, in collaboration with Imbatha Solutions, officially handed over the 15 units on Tuesday 31 January 2023. The PIC said the handover comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa called on South Africans, corporations, and non-governmental organisations to join the South African government's Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) initiative to aid in eliminating pit latrines at schools.
The SAFE initiative was launched in August 2018. In 2018, the department confirmed 3 898 schools are dependent on pit toilets and it aimed to complete the project before the end of the 2022/23 financial year.
ALSO READ: North West tennis centre restored to former glory
The Mmabatho Tennis Centre in the province has been refurbished and will be ready for use soon. The refurbishment was done by the Mahikeng Local Municipality and the formal handover to the provincial department of Arts, Culture, Sport, and Recreation will be done after the refurbishment has been fully completed.
Speaking to the spokesperson of the municipality, Elliot Moncho, he said there were three phases of renovations that needed to be completed and each phase had a budget of R20 million, with the entire cost of the project being R60 million.
Currently, the municipality has completed the first two phases and is in the process of completing the last phase.
