Protec honours top achievers

Protec Tongaat rewarded the cream of their crop of students with calculators, bags and other learning aids at their awards ceremony held at Tongaat Secondary school last Friday.
Protec is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that provides education in maths, science and technology and career development programmes to previously disadvantaged communities.
Protec Tongaat’s manager, Marion Takis, thanked their sponsors, including BMG and the North Coast Courier, for their generosity in helping them provide additional tuition to the children of Tongaat.
Her sentiments were echoed by Zamangwane Zikhali, a grade 12 pupil at Fairbreeze Secondary School.
“I want thank to the Protec team and our sponsors for what they have done for me and the other matric pupils who benefited from this programme for the past three years. Having you by our side lightened the academic load for us and our teachers,” said Zikhali.
Their proud parents cheered as Precise Mbense (grade 10), Nozipho Mzobe (grade 11) and twelfth graders S’nenhlanhla Bhengu and Sandiswa Lombo took top overall achiever awards in the respective grades.
They received the trophies, certificates and duffel bags for their hard work.