Umfolozi’s top matrics honoured
Addressing learners, Member of Parliament and Chairperson of the Human Settlements Portfolio Committee, Nocawe Mafu, said her department was offering full bursaries
THE Umfolozi Municipality is continuing its support of education to help address skills shortages.
Speaking at the municipality’s matric excellence awards function held last week at the uMfolozi Municipal Hall, Masyor Simanga Mgenge, said: ‘We are a country confronted with skills shortage challenges and scarcity of a jobs opportunities. We have come to realise that we will not win the unemployment battle if we don’t provide our youth with skills.
‘As a municipality, we decided to assist needy learners, especially those coming from the poor families to ensure that when they finish their studies, they will get employment and uplift their families.’
Photo by Muzi Zincume
Addressing learners, Member of Parliament and Chairperson of the Human Settlements Portfolio Committee, Nocawe Mafu, said her department was offering full bursaries.
‘I have been tasked to give out full bursaries to six students who aspire to complete town planning, civil engineering or construction management degrees.
‘But these students need to prove to us that they have applied and have been accepted by tertiary institutions to do one of these courses,’ said Mafu, who was pleased with matrics’ performances at local high schools.
‘Two schools only received 50 percent pass rates in 2017, but in 2018 they scored 100 percent. As I have been deployed to work in this area, I will be visiting three schools that did not perform well to determine what went wrong and how they could be assisted,’ she said.
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