KwaBhekilanga toppled as Alex’s best matric school

KwaBhekilanga Secondary School in Alexandra has been toppled from the leaderboard as the township’s top matric performing school.

This comes after close to a decade of dominating the matric results of the five township schools, those being KwaBhekilanga, Alexandra High, Minerva Secondary, East Bank High and Realogile High schools.

KwaBhekilanga first shot into the limelight after many years in the dog box when it turned the corner from a turbulent history.

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The credit for turning the school around goes to the principal, Jubera Selowa.

Selowa took over the helm of the school while it was still in the doldrums in 2012 and helped it pen a new history and chapter of excellence.

What has become KwaBhekilanga’s natural place at the top of the leaderboard has been taken over by the first high school to be established in the township, Alexandra High School. It too has had its fair share of turbulent times in the past few years until the arrival of ‘Alex’s Miss Fix It’, Zoleka Lebelo.

Lebelo was dubbed ‘Alex’s Miss Fix It’ when she was appointed as principal at the ‘notorious’ East Bank High School. Soon after ‘fixing’ East Bank, she was deployed to Alex High to help stabilise it after years of political interference and wrangling between the ANC and the DA.

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Since Lebelo’s departure, East Bank High has gradually deteriorated back to the level of its old ways of unruly learners that come late to school and the issue of underperformance by teachers and a degree of political interference too.

For many years, Minerva had a ‘no nonsense’ principal, Linah Mabungu who retired in 2012, a year after her school was toppled by KwaBhekilanga from the summit of the best performing matric schools in Alex. She had held that title for five years and promised to return but she never did.

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Nontsikelelo Tsatsi who took over from Mabungu has managed to keep the school there and thereabouts as far as matric results go. “I don’t like running to the media to talk about matric results,” she told Alex News when contacted. But when Alex News said to her that we had come to her, she just laughed it off.

Several attempts were made to contact Selowa of KwaBhekilanga, Alex High’s Lebelo and East Bank High, but all calls went unanswered. Realogile High answered our calls on several occasions but the principal was not available each time.

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