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Kids left destitute Siblings plead for help to go back to school } Jabulani Dlamini WHILE the province is still basking in the glory of being number one in the country in terms of the matric results, for siblings Modise and Mpho Motse of the informal settlement Pieter Swartz attending school seems an impossible dream. Express understands the siblings are but two of many in and around the sprawling, low-income neighbourhoods commonly referred to as the “phases” which lie spread out on the horizon to the south of Bloemfontein. When interviewed, 13-year-old Modise and his 11-year-old sister Mpho were wearing dirty, tattered clothing. “This girl has been wearing this dress since before December. She regularly walks around here in the middle of the night knocking on doors begging for leftover food,” Matshilonyane Letsee said. Letsee said she had turned to Express to help with these children after she and her husband, Sekoala, had benefited from the generosity of Express readers following their plea for help with their triplets. Asked if they had ever attended school, Mpho said she had finished only gr. 1 while her elder brother had only attended the first term of gr. 1. Their 20-year-old brother, Thapelo Motse, who also only finished gr. 1, explained that things had started going wrong for them in 2012 after their parents had died within three months of each other. “Our father died in March of 2012 while our mother soon followed in June of the same year. To be honest, I try, but I am unable to look after these two, and I would
HELP US, PLEASE: Orphaned siblings Mpho (left) and Modise (right) say they just need help to go back to school. With them is 7yearold Thabang who also does not attend school. Photo: Jabulani Dlamini really appreciate any help we can receive,” Thapelo said. Thapelo said they were currently neither receiving any government assistance nor were they attending school because the children’s documents, including clinic cards,
had been taken by a social worker in August last year. “I know where that social worker’s office is,” said Modise who also said he could point out the social worker who took their clinic cards.
He said the social worker was based at the Sassa Building, commonly referred to as ‘The Flat’ in Dr Belcher Road. ) Watch Mpho and Modise explain their situation on your cellphone at www.expresspa-
per.mobi or on the Express website at www.expressnews.co.za. ) You can follow Jabulani Dlamini on Twitter @JabulaniD15 and Express @Express_News03.
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SEE HERE: Nthabiseng Lekhehla, a teacher at the Relebeletse Combined School, en sures that Teboho Molelekoa enjoys his first day at school. Photos: Sidwell Guduka
IN TEARS: Teboho Molelekoa cried uncontrollably after his par ents had left him at the Relebeletse Combined School in Phase 4, Bloemfontein.
“I don’t want to at tend school. I want to go back home with you. Don’ t leave me behind, please!” – Teboho Molelekoa
SHEDDING TEARS: Oratile Mahoko cries in the classroom during his first day at the Rekgonne Primary School in Phase 4, Bloem fontein.
‘Please take me back home!’ } Sidwell Guduka
THERE were tears and joy when the 2014 school year got off to a great start last Wednesday with all Mzansi’s schools opening on the same day for the first time. Most of the pupils who were attending school for the first time were happy to start their long educational journey, while there were tears from those who did not want to stay in school. One such child was Teboho Molelekoa (6) of Phase 4, outside Bloemfontein, who cried uncontrollably when his parents left him in the classroom at the Relebeletse Combined School. He has been enrolled
for gr. 1 for the current academic year. “I don’t want to attend school. I want to go back home with you. Don’t leave me behind, please!” Teboho screamed with tears rolling down his cheeks as his parents made their way out of his classroom. But Teboho’s class teacher, Nthabiseng Lekhehla, was on hand to make the young boy feel at home. And he soon began to enjoy his first lesson at school. “Don’t cry, Teboho. Other learners will laugh at you if you continue to cry like this. We are going to take good care of you and give you the best education in this school. You are also going to make good friends and have a lot of fun here,”
Lekhehla assured Teboho. The other kid who shed tears on his first day at school was Oratile Mahoko (5) of the Khayelitsha Squatter Camp in Bloemfontein. The little boy started his gr. R at the Rekgonne Secondary School last week. “Mommy, let me go home with you! Don’t leave me here. I want to go back home,” Oratile cried when his mother left him in the classroom. “Please take me back home!” he begged. Meanwhile, Noxolo Witman (6) was all smiles to begin her school journey at the Rekgonne Primary School and she promised to work hard for the duration
of the academic year. “I’m very happy to be attending school. I want to get educated so that I can be a better person. It is easier to get a job when you are educated,” Noxolo commented. Duke Mphatsoanyane, the principal of the Rekgonne Primary School, said his school ensured that teaching and learning started on the first day. “We are going to hit the ground running. Teaching and learning should begin from today. We have received all the learning material from the Free State Department of Education. So now it’s up to us as a school to deliver quality education to the learners,” he said.
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Without water on first school day } Sidwell Guduka THINGS went smoothly for most of the schools in the Free State on the first day of the school year. But the opening of schools on Wednesday was more of a headache for Relebeletse Combined School’s headmaster, Vuyo Lerotholi, who faced a big challenge on the day. There was no running water on the school premises and as a result the principal had to send learners home early, because the school couldn’t stay open with no water. “We’ve been fighting this water problem since last November. We’ve contacted the municipality several times but they just don’t come to fix the problem. “I believe before we closed for the Christmas holidays the municipal workers came here to assess the situation, but they just took a photo of the water meter box and left. Up until today, they have not come back,” Lerotholi told Express last Wednesday. “I was at the municipal offices to report the same problem again last Monday. Their staff promised to come and fix it urgently. I went there again last Tuesday but they have not come to solve the problem. I’ll go back there yet again today to investigate why it is taking the municipality so long to fix this problem,” he explained. “Our learners are very young children. It is terribly hot and they cannot stay without water the whole day. Education cannot take place under the abnormal situation like this one. We have no other option but to send all our learners home today. I’ll communicate this matter with the Department of Education,” he said. Meanwhile, Lerotholi has appealed to the parents whose children attend the Relebeletse Combined School to attend parents meetings when they are called. “I became the principal of this school towards the end of last year. I called two meetings. The first one was attended better, but the attendance was very poor at the second one.
VUYO LEROTHOLI, the principal of the Relebeletse Combined School. We have about 1 400 registered pupils this year. I expect our school hall to be filled to capacity when we call parents meetings. “I think we need to market the school to a level whereby the parents will understand what the school is. They should know what is their role in the school setup. I’ll be calling our first parents meeting soon and I appeal to parents to come in their numbers. “We normally discuss important issues at
these meetings. It is vital for every parent to be present at all our meetings throughout the year,” he continued. The former Hodisa Technical Secondary School principal had a message for his learners and teachers. “Children must come to school to learn. They must come to school as regularly as possible. Nothing should prevent them from coming to school,” said Lerotholi.
Photo: Sidwell Guduka
“As for the teachers, I believe a teacher is a teacher because he or she has been called. Teaching is a profession of calling, it is not a profession of money. So teachers must be dedicated to their work, which is to teach learners,” he concluded. ) Qondile Khedama, spokesperson of the Mangaung Metro Municiplity, said the water problem at Relebeletse Combined School was resolved last Thursday.
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Ha rebe le pelo ya ho arolelana KE sa boela ke hoa madume. Selemo se fetileng se fetile le tsa sona, bang se ba tsamaetse hantle, bang sa ba tsamaela hampe. Ho bao se ba tsamaetseng hantle, pele ya pele, mme ho bao se ba tsamaetseng hampe, hase mara hase ho fela. Bophelong re iphumana re phela le batho ba kojwana di mahetleng, ba kollang ntsi hanong. Ba bang ba kopane le dikgohola tsa bophelo mme ‘Kgale le benya ba fetlama’. Metwa le mewhabadi ya tshotleho e kgomaretse mekokotlong ya bona, mme bofuma bo tjhatjhametsa jwalo ka tsenene maphelong a bona. Ditlamorao tsa bofuma ba bona di sekisa meokgo. Re keke ra phelang hamonate kaofela harona, bang ke barui, bang ke ba nang le ho lekaneng, bang ho re ba phele ba fufulelwa tsatsi le tjhabang le le dikelang. Empa ho na le ba bang bao lentswe lena ‘Bofutsana’, ekareng ha le sa ba hlalosa
A re bueng Kutenwane Kareli Cultural Practitioner hantle. Ba hlophehile hona ho otlang pelo. Batho ba ba shebela fatshe jwalo kaha eka ha se batho kapa ba na le monnko. Ke ngola seratswana sena ke rotloetsa tjhaba sa rantso ho ba le pelo ya ho fana. Ebang ona le dijo tse salletseng ka kopo hle, o seke wa di lahla, ho na le motho ya ka dijang sa mpana phatloha. Ebang o na le diaparo tsa kgale tseo oseng o sa di ratisisi, kapa di se di o haella, nehelana ka tsona hona le ho di tjhesa. Malapeng a rona ha o ka tadimisisa, re qhala dijo tse ngata haholo. Ka nako enngwe sena ha se bolele kapa ho hlalosa hore re na le tjhelete, empa ele tlwaelo hoba
hangata tlwaelo e hlola kelello. Dikolo di butswe, mme diketekete tsa bana di kgutletse sekolong. Boholo ba bana bana bo itllhophere haholo, ba bang ba tsamaya ka maoto, ba se na le dieta. O tla pakelwa le ke ho omella hwa molomo wa ngwana feela esale hoseng hore le thahameso ha e a feta pela hae. A ke re shebeng ka mabokoseng diaparo tse seng di sa lekane bana ba rona, mme re nehelaneng ka tsona ho bana ba di hlokang. Ba baka mohau haholo hoba hahona letho leo ba ka le etsang, ke maemo ao ba iphumanang ba le ka hara ona mme ba lokela ho a phela.
‘Ke a tseba hore batho ba bang ba ditlhong tsa ho fana... Thekolohelo tikolohong ya he no mme o ise eng kapa eng feela eo okabang le yona ya kgale...Ramasedi a o hlohonolofa ditse ka ho hong bophelong ba hao, nahane la ya hlokang tlhohonolofatso eo.’ – Kuten wane Kareli Le bona ba lakatsa eka ba ka tshwana le bana ba bang, ebe ke thabo maphelong a bona ha dikolo di bulwa, eseng ba hloname ha kana. Ebang ho na le lelapa leo o le tsebang le futsanehileng, kakopo hle pele o qhala dijo, le nahanele. Ke a tseba hore batho ba bang be ditlhong tsa ho fana. Ebang ho le jwalo ke o phephetsa ho botsa ka lefapha la thekolohelo tikolohong ya heno mme o ise eng kapa eng feela eo okabang le yona ya kgale. Ekaba dieta, diaparo, kobo, poletjhe ya dieta, jwalo jwalo. Ke a o hlapanyetsa sena se ka etsa phethoho e makatsang bophelong
ba motho e mong. Re lokela re le batho ho nahanelana, ha se setlamo empa ke moya wa botho. Ebang Ramasedi a o hlohonolofaditse ka ho hong bophelong ba hao, nahanela ya hlokang tlhohonolofatso eo. Ke Motaung wa Rampai ya reng: Mehoma mobung, tjhaba sa Rantsho se none. ) Mang kapa mang ya a batlang ho ngola kholomong ena, a ka ikopanya le Jabulani Dlamini ho 051404-7910 kapa ho Jabulani.Dlamini@volksblad.com ) Mongodi ha ana ho lefiwa.
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Learning to read and write at school MAKGADI KOPANO, Maserame Kofa, a gr. 1 teacher at the Rekgonne Primary School, Oler ato Senwamadi and Noxolo Witman hit the ground running when the schools opened last Wednesday.
THE first day at the Relebeletse Primary School in Bloemfontein’s Phase 4 last Wednesday.
Celebrating her first party in style PARTY TIME: Little Keabetswe Dire (middle) celebrated her first birthday with friends and family at Chris Hani Park in Phahameng, Bloemfontein, over the weekend. Photo: Sidwell Guduka
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Let’s Play looking for new sports stars learners at either primary or high school who excel in sport or who are helping others to be more active. Anyone between the ages of 6 and 18 can enter. You can nominate yourself or be nominated by a friend, a teacher, lecturer or coach at your school or place of education. You can even be nominated by a family member who knows how good you are. From all the entries we receive each month, one player will be chosen as the SuperSport Let’s Play Sports Star of the
Month and will receive a Let’s Play hamper filled with goodies. At the end of the year one player from all the Star of the Month winners during the year will be chosen as the SuperSport Let’s Play Sports Star of the Year. We do an overall annual summary of all your sporting achievements at the end of November before the year-winner is chosen. Every school or place of education has talented sports men and women. Don’t be shy – we want to know who you are. Send us your nomination today (nominations received before the 20th of every month will be included in that month’s selection. Nominations received after the 20th of every month will be carried over to
the next month’s selection). Your nomination must include your name, age and a short paragraph (less than 200 words) on what you have achieved, as well as your contact details. For example: Name: Age and grade: School or place of education’s name: What you have achieved (200 words or less): Contact telephone number or address: You can email your nomination to supersport@zpr.co.za or fax 086-552-4922. For more information call Lynne or Juanré at Z PR on 051-522-9574.
Seek God and be wiser } Pastor Mutombo Moise WE all desire to enter our destinies, we have good ideas, plans on how to get there, but most of the time we find ourselves in the realm of failures, disappointment and discouragement. This shows we need someone smarter, wiser and stronger than we are and that is Jesus Christ. When we learn to depend on Him we will learn that Jesus will be lifting the weight of this troubled world with us. Therefore we will find strength in our discouragement, laughter in our sadness, strength in our weakness, healing in our sickness, deliverances in all our oppressions and appointment and our disappointment. But the key to these blessings is to seek Jesus Christ first in life (Matthew 6:33). To hear more and learn more about healing or deliverance visit the Joe Solomon Primary School in Heidedal every Sunday from 09:00 or contact us on 071-214-9404. God bless and see you there.
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ARE you good at sport – or is someone in your school or place of education excelling at sport? Are you motivating or training others to be good at sport? Are you a young coach to future stars? Are you getting people active at your school, community or gym? We want to hear from you. SuperSport’s Let’s Play identified the need amongst the youth to be more active in sport. With this in mind SuperSport and Let’s Play in association with Express have launched a special initiative in 2008, aimed at enhancing recreation and development at schools through play and sport. We want to find and give recognition to
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Jansen criticises matric results } Sidwell Guduka PROF. JONATHAN JANSEN, the rector and vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State, said he believed that the matric results would come down this year. He was speaking to the media at a press conference held at the University of the Free State Campus in Bloemfontein on Wednesday. “I’m saying this because there is a new policy that was introduced by the end of 2012, I think. “It says that no student in the FET phase (gr. 10, gr. 11 and gr. 12) is allowed to fail more than once. “That is if you fail twice you get a pass automatically,” said Jansen. “In the Western Cape, this year they have 3 000 odd students who failed gr. 11 last year, but they were forced to pass under this new policy. “One of those kids got 6% in one of the subjects. “There is a whole lot of kids who are in gr. 12 in all the nine provinces. They are all bound to fail this year because they actually failed gr. 11. “That would bring down, if nothing else, the matric pass rate unless the provinces defy the policy,” he said.
Last year’s matrics achieved a pass rate of 78,2%. The Free State achieved the top marks of 87,4%. This was the highest pass rate in the history of post-1994 education in South Africa after 2012’s 73,9%. “We must judge success against the level of the pass, not only the percentage pass rate. “If I tell you my research at this university has grown by 50%, what that could mean if you didn’t know how to look for the rotatory, is that I might have gone from one article to two articles,” said the rector. Jansen further said if the pass rate for matric was 50% last year, only 24% of the matrics would have passed their final examinations in 2013. “Remember, a 50% pass rate means that you only know half the stuff in your curriculum. “If that was the case last year only 24% of the students would have passed as opposed to 78,2% that was achieved. “That is scary,” said Jansen. “In my opinion, I think a 50% pass rate should really be the standard by which we should judge the performance of our students, not 30% and 40%. “That’s wrong,” he emphasised.
PROF. JONATHAN JANSEN, the rector and vicechancellor of the University of the Free State. Photo: Sidwell Guduka
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AS learners entered the second week of the 2014 school year, inmates across the country are registering for various educational and skills programmes. Correctional Services Minister, Sibusiso Ndebele, has called on the heads of South Africa’s 243 correctional centres to encourage every inmate to participate in such programmes. “The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is implementing programmes aimed at turning around the lives of those who wronged society. “This will help these inmates so that upon release, they are ideal, productive, law-abiding citizens. “Inmates must work and study, and leave correctional centres with a skill in one hand and a certificate in the other hand,” Ndebele said. “The hand that was used to harm others must be changed into a hand which now builds and heals. The trilogy of victim-offender-community
is central to all rehabilitation,” the minister added. The Department of Correctional Services has increased the number of full-time correctional centre schools from only 1 in 2009 to 12 in 2013. This year, three additional schools are scheduled for accreditation including Rustenburg, Boksburg and the Ekuseni Youth Centres. Last year, the minister announced that, as from 1 April 2013, it is compulsory for every inmate, without a qualification equivalent to gr. 9, to complete Adult Education and Training (AET) level 1 to 4. Between April and September 2013, 11 649 inmates registered for AET programmes. From 2010 to 2013, 73 881 inmates participated in educational programmes. Over the past two years (2012-’13), 559 inmates wrote gr. 9 to gr. 11 examinations, with an average pass rate of 73% in 2013. – SAnews.gov.za
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EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY 22 JANUARY 2014
Win or lose, CHAN is still on } Sidwell Guduka
TUSSLE: Bernard Parker of South Africa is tackled by Souleymane Konate of Mali during the 2014 Orange African Nations Championship (Chan) Group A match in the Cape Town Stadium. Photo: Chris Ricco/BackpagePix
BAFANA BAFANA may be out of the 2014 Orange African Nations Championship (Chan), but the tournament still continues. South Africa’s national team crashed in a heavy 1-3 defeat against Nigeria to finish third in Group A behind the Super Eagles and Mali. The outcome of the match in Cape Town on Sunday angered Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula. At a press briefing on Monday, the outspoken Mbalula made some scathing comments that Bafana Bafana were a “bunch of losers” and “unbearable, useless individuals”. “What I saw there was not a problem of coaching, it was a bunch of losers, who don’t have any respect for this country and don’t have any respect for anybody. The mediocrity displayed yesterday is something that we should never wake up to see again,” Mbalula told the reporters. “Their performance was not even lacklustre, it was useless. We indeed have a crisis of monumental proportions. We don’t have a crisis of talent, we have a crisis of putting everything together.” The minister said he had felt like standing up and walking out of the stadium during the match. “I saw people lining up after the game to greet them. I won’t greet them, I didn’t even call them. “In Africa we have won nothing – we are a laughing stock. Even Madiba Magic would not have worked. This generation of players we must forget.” South Africa started as the overwhelming favourites, but were far from convincing in their opening two encounters. In their tournament opener, they came from behind to snatch a 3-1 win over Mozambique, before they were held 1-all by Mali in a match that saw some horrendous refereeing decisions that had worked in their favour. Meanwhile, Mauritania will entertain Gabon in a tough Group A fixture at the Free State Stadium tonight at 19:00. On Saturday, the winner of Group C will battle it out against the runner-up of Group D in the quarterfinals in Bloemfontein. The kick-off is scheduled for 20:30. The city of Mangaung will host the semifinals next Wednesday. The first semifinal will start at 17:00, while the other one will begin at 20:30. Tickets for CHAN are available at Computicket outlets.