The Ehlanzeni District recently awarded its best performing schools and learners of the 2022 academic year during its annual matric awards event at Hoërskool Nelspruit. This follows the provincial ceremony at the University of Mpumalanga on January 20.

These district awards were a chance to celebrate and to look back at the set goals and the matriculants’ and their teachers’ achievements.

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In the Class of 2022, the school with the most outstanding performance in the district in 2022 was announced to be Hoërskool Nelspruit.

White Hazy Circuit 2 was the most improved. The title of most improved school went to Phola Secondary School, under White Hazy Circuit 2.

The best performing circuit was Mbombela. In second place was White Hazy Circuit 2 and in third place White Hazy Circuit 1. The overall best teacher in the district was Thandi Ndlazi.

During the event, Hazel Brukwe, the district director of Ehlanzeni, said the learners who worked very hard, because they had to face the pandemic, deserved to be awarded.

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“These learners worked hard during difficult times. I want to congratulate the teachers for their work and the roles they played. Let’s continue to compete with ourselves so that we can become excellent. Today we are here to appreciate the work we did to reach our set a target, although we did not reach it. Our target was not to be number one. We had identified schools that can reach 100% and we had a target for bachelors passes, for the most improved schools, top 10 and more. We had hoped that we would get the vehicle for the best matriculant in our district again.”

Brukwe said the district is going to try to do things differently next time. She said they need to appreciate the primary schoolteachers for the foundation they laid.
She thanked all the sponsors who supported the district.