Gauteng Community Education and Training College is colour co-ordinating learners to keep them safe
The Gauteng Community Education and Training College explains why their learners wear white and red during the week.
On a Thursday and Friday, along 2nd Avenue in Wynberg, it’s not uncommon to encounter a swarming mass of red-clad youths traveling along the busy street which leads to the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court.
These youths are learners, attending classes at the Gauteng Community Education and Training College, where they are encouraged to wear white shirts from Monday to Wednesday, and red shirts for the rest of the week, with dark coloured jeans.
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Letumile Nchabeleng, who teaches English and serves as an administrative supervisor at the college, said, on January 31, that the idea to colour co-ordinate their learners started in 2020 as a means of keeping learners safe on the busy road.
“We’re situated along a main road, and we felt it would help if community members were able to tell school learners apart from other people, or even criminals, on this busy street. It’s also a way to prevent our learners from being mistaken for criminals in the event that something happens,” she said.
Nchabeleng also acknowledged that the institution operates in a community where most parents are unemployed, expressing how the college cannot impose on their learners to wear one common cut of shirt on those days. The school’s point, however, is that learners are made easier to identify for their own safety.
“We used to have people enter our school’s premises with the aim of mugging our learners, and they’d steal their phones,” said Nchabeleng.
The Gauteng Community Education and Training College offers the National Certificate (Vocational) (NCV) level 4 qualification, which is a combination of grades 9–11. They also offer matric.
This college is an institution in Alex where all learners, under the age of 21, are able to be assessed for matric qualification, through completion the NCV level 4 qualification.
In the afternoons, learners, and working professionals looking to upgrade their matric results, attend their lessons between 14:00 and 18:00.
There are learners at the college who are yet to have red shirts on hand to be worn, and any one willing to be generous and donate shirts, red or white, to the school, would be greatly appreciated.
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