Mams school celebrates Heritage Day
The event is held to remind learners about their culture.
Learners and teachers of Agnes Chidi Primary School in Mamelodi West celebrated Heritage Day by wearing different colourful traditional clothing.
The celebration was held at the school premises on September 23.
Cultural co-ordinator at the school, Moeti Daisy Kobo, said, ‘We are celebrating Heritage Day because we have different cultural learners in our school’.
Kobo said it is an annual event that teaches children to live together as Africans, because they live in a society where they come from different provinces and different cultures.
“For instance, in a classroom we have learners who come from different backgrounds and the school has managed to accommodate these learners in one classroom,” said Kobo.
As part of the celebration, the parents were asked to dress children according to their various cultures, and the teachers also dressed in traditional garb.
The school celebrated the day with dancing, singing, residing poems, cooking traditional food, and the teachers danced to traditional wedding songs.
Kobo added that the school has plenty of talent when it comes to traditional dancing, and it once won a R20 000 cash prize after entering a traditional dance competition. The money was used to build the school’s assembly shelter.
“The school desperately needs traditional clothing and traditional instruments like marimbas, flutes, djembes, and thumb pianos to participate in more traditional dance competitions,” she said.
Kobo also reminded us, “Heritage Day is about what we are bringing or sharing with our learners because today’s children they live in a society that has lost its culture and dominated by a culture of talking English in the streets, schools and at home.
“We are teaching our children about their different clans and teach them how to reside our poems and how to cook traditional food.”
The official theme for South Africa’s Heritage Month this year is ‘Reimagine Our Heritage Institutions for a New Era’ focusing on transforming heritage sites and museums into engines of innovation, inclusion, and community development rather than just being custodians of the past.
This theme emphasises that heritage should be used to build a dynamic, inclusive future rooted in democratic values, while also commemorating liberation struggle heroes.
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