Practitioner training strengthens early learning
With Grade R now compulsory for five-year-olds under the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act, the focus on Early Childhood Development...
Practitioner training strengthens early learning
Community Impact
New ECD practitioners welcomed into training programme
New ECD practitioners welcomed into training programme
As the Northern Cape continues to work towards strengthening the Early Childhood Development through reforms such as the Basic Education Laws...
Reliable water supply now available for local communities
Reliable water supply now available for local communities
Schools across Boshof and Hertzogville no longer need to cancel lessons due to a lack of water. Each school has received a fully developed and...
Local graduates gain specialist skills
Local graduates gain specialist skills
Refiloe Phefo, a 20-year-old from Jeffreys Bay who recently completed her studies in Engineering Technology in Electrical Engineering, is one of...
Empowering women through renewable energy
Empowering women through renewable energy
Women in the Khai-Ma area of the Northern Cape are growing, learning, and leading through opportunities created at a small Pofadder-based...
Developing a love for reading
Developing a love for reading
Kenhardt children and their parents are developing a growing love for reading, supported by a newly implemented reading programme at the local...
Highlights
Conservation programme creates new employment
A local conservation programme is creating real opportunities for young people around the Ceres Mountain Fynbos Nature Reserve. More than 40 youth have gained green employment, clearing over 2,000 hectares of invasive alien vegetation and, for one participant, opening the door to permanent municipal employment. The benefits reach well beyond the reserve. Neighbouring communities are seeing a recovering natural environment, along with renewed care for the public spaces they use every day. “In the past few months, the improvement in the state of the park, the cleanliness, the tending, the...