Malmesbury Community Learning centre makes difference

Minister visit parts of the West Coast District

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Celebrating 30 years of excellence, the Malmesbury Community Learning Centre (CLC) made a difference in many students’ lives who today hold professional positions. The learning centre assists adults who could not qualify for admission to Technical and Vocational Education and Training(TVET)colleges,school dropouts, or those who never attended formal schooling, by helping them receive their matriculation certificate For morethan30years,between80 and 100 students have applied annually Malmesbury CLC is part of the Western Cape Community Education and Training College, which falls undertheDepartmentofHigher Education. The centre serves as the main one, with satellite centres in Porterville, Vredenburg, Atlantis, and Piketberg According to Duane Jantjies, the current acting centre manager, a need for learning opportunities was identifiedin1992afterasurvey was done by the founders, Rev Michael Phillips and his wife Diane, Reginald Kortjé, the late Frank Fry, and Abie Witbooi. The survey was focused on the needs of the communities of Malmesbury and Abbotsdale

Following the survey, the Abbotsdale

Gemeenskapsorganisasie-projek (AGOP) was established in Abbotsdale in 1993 and later moved to Malmesbury, where it was known as Mavos (Malmesbury Volwasse Onderig Sentrum). The main focus at thattimewasonlytohelpadults with basic literacy skills such as readingandwriting Thecollege grew overthe yearsand started serving the whole Swartland Municipal area, providing evening classes in RiebeekWest, Riebeek Kasteel, Abbotsdale, Kalbaskraal, Riverlands,Chatsworth,Darling, and Malmesbury Leeann Berling,aGrade7teacheratO.J.

Erasmus Primary School and part-time student completing her honours degree in teaching at West Coast College in Malmesbury,saidshecompleted her matric in 2012 at Mavos, opening the door to further tertiary studies Charmaine Anthony attended Malmesbury CLC in 2010, but due to appendix surgery, she could not obtain her matric that year. She started home-based care and wanted to pursue a career in nursing In2017shereturnedto Malmesbury CLC, attending evening classes at Chatsworth Primary School Pravin Geysenberg, the former manager of the centre, told her therewouldbethepossibilityof daily classes "I attended Malmesbury CLC for that year and completed my Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) level 4, which was Grade 9 At thattime,Iwasmarriedandhad three children I was the top student that year. Recalling her bestmemoryduringhertimeat theinstitution,shesaysitwasat a prize-giving ceremony that she received a trophy for each subject.

Swartland High School's learners took part in the English Olympiad

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