Hammanskraal primary school receives free computer lab
Dikeledi Makapane Primary School learners in Hammanskraal will soon use computers for the first time.
Dikeledi Makapane Primary School learners in Hammanskraal will soon use computers for the first time.
This is after Zororo-Phumlani donated 14 computers to the school after partnering with the Gauteng department of education.
Founder of Zororo-Phumlani funeral services Edwin Anderson said the company met with departmental officials during the memorial service of a grade one learner stabbed to death by a 17-year-old pupil in November 2018.
“We offered to hold the memorial service and realised that there was a gap at the school. We asked the principal what we could do for the school. He indicated a need for a computer laboratory,” said Anderson who started his company in 2012, and now operates in eight provinces across South Africa.
“We get our support from the community so we saw the need to give back to the community. We want to better and lift up their education and this will not end here today but we will do it with other needy schools as well,” said Anderson.
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Grade seven learner Kamogelo Modise (14) said she was looking forward to using the computer lab for the first time
“The laboratory will help us do our assignments, projects and other school work. We will no longer buy data to Google information,” said Modise.
District director Nakedi Moses Thema said Anderson, a Zimbabwean, kept his promise to the school even though there had been a spate of alleged xenophobic attacks in Gauteng.
“We appreciate that he chose our district while there are many provinces and schools that are needy. We hope that this computer laboratory will ignite the passion of digital innovation in our learners and that techno literacy will prevail in terms of the fourth industrial revolution.
“As the department, we promised to provide the school with security and we kept the promise, the security is here,” said Thema.
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