New classrooms for Mtubatuba school
Dlilanga High School in Mtubatuba faces a severe lack of resources and adequate classrooms.
THE introduction of a diverse new curriculum, which includes such subjects as science, commerce and music, left Dlilanga High School in Mtubatuba facing a severe lack of resources and adequate classrooms.
In 2013 Mr Nxumalo of Manukuza Construction offered to build and donate four new classrooms to the school.
This project has now come to fruition and culminated with KZN Premier Senzo Mchunu, KZN Education MEC Peggy Nkonyeni and uMkhanyakude District Mayor Cllr Jeff Vilane officially presenting the classrooms to school staff and pupils. During his speech at the handover ceremony, Mchunu noted that uMkhanyakude District faces severe challenges, including unemployment, poverty and a lack of infrastructure.
He urged the community to look after their schools for the sake of sustainability.
The addition of the new classrooms has prompted school staff to consider introducing further subjects such as mechanical engineering, technical drawing and welding.
This would earmark Dlilanga High School as a technical school but would require the donation of further classrooms and resources which it hopes the Department of Education will see fit to fund.
According to Mduduzi Dlamini, uMkhanyakude District Spokesperson, ‘uMkhanyakude is geared up for change… the district municipality has concluded the signing of R1.6 billion for water infrastructure with the Department of Water Affairs’.
Concluding, Dlamini stated, ‘This is a victory [for] us at the district.’
