MEC for Finance in Gauteng visits Glenvista High
The aim of the visit was for the MEC to see if the school was ready for the new school year and if it needed anything to help ease the year for learners.
The MEC for Finance and e-Governance in Gauteng, Nomatu Nkomo-Ralehoko, visited Glenvista High School on January 19 with DJ Uncle Waffles, Zeus Omega, a digital content creator, as well as former alumna of the school and shadow councillor Zandile Ntlokwane.
The goal of the visit was for the MEC to see if the school was ready for the new school year and if it needed anything to help ease the year for learners.
The programme was started with the first speaker for the day, Ntlokwane, a successful businesswoman who furthered her studies at the University of Johannesburg and graduated with a diploma in accounting in 2018.
Ntlokwane contributed her success to the school and went on to motivate the learners to do their best to work for their future.
Mzukisi Siwundla, better known as Zeus Omega, was next up with a talk about drugs and what they could do to the body. Omega owns a company called Kreative.Kornerr, which specialises in creating digital content.
Next up was the head of Department for e-Governance, Cyril Baloyi, with a talk on how technology is influencing our daily lives.
“It’s important to work smarter, not harder. We use technology to make our daily lives easier,” said Baloyi.
He announced the e-Governance app that will help matric learners with getting their results, as well as helping upcoming matrics with past papers to study for the exams.
The MEC for Finance and e-Governance then motivated learners to strive to be their best selves and say no to drugs, gender-based violence.
“We started the programme of checking up on schools to ensure they have everything that is needed. A problem at home, like not being able to afford the basics that a learner needs, will become a school’s problem, which can lead to a child falling behind and getting lost in the system.
“We recently also launched a project in Orienthill close to Magaliesburg where we have school dropouts doing courses via the internet on various skills needed to ensure they find work,” said Nkomo-Ralehoko.
The next speaker was DJ Uncle Waffles, who motivated the learners before performing one of her hit songs.
The visit ended with Nkomo-Ralehoko and the principal of the school, Thobile Morgan, planting a tree to ensure future generations at the school have a lasting legacy of this visit.
