ALEXANDRA - Iphutheng Primary School will fly the Alexandra flag high when it represents Gauteng province in Durban in the 6th Biennale National Land Care Conference in September.
MAMATSHEU Ramalepe, who played human in the script, explains himself to animals (fellow pupils behind him) that co-habit the earth with him.
Iphutheng Primary School will fly the Alexandra flag high when it represents Gauteng in Durban in the 6th Biennale National Land Care Conference in September.
The school came out top in the competition organised by Land Care South Africa in association with the departments agriculture and forestry, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Department of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal.
Iphutheng won this accolade in the provincial leg of the competition hosted at the Sci-Bono Centre in Newtown. The school enlisted the help of Art Smart Brand, which is behind the branding of Alex into an art smart township, to help them with writing a script for a play about land care and environmental issues.
The script was written, cast and directed in the record time of two weeks by Themba Ronald Khoza of Art Smart Brand – they then went on to conquer the whole of Gauteng.
“This is a clear example of [the] potential power there is when art professionals and schools believe in each other and know how to work in unison at the highest level of their abilities to bring about positive results,” said Vika Mjoka, chief project director of Art Smart Brand.
Art Smart is about developing arts in the township and is working closely with Iphutheng to ensure the school becomes the beacon of school art development programmes in Alex and in all other township schools.
The conquering crew of 10 schoolchildren will be travelling to Durban for the 21-25 September national leg of the Junior Land Care Biennial Conference.
Mamatsheu Ramalepe, who played human in the script, explains himself to animals (fellow pupils behind him) that co-habit the earth with him.
Iphutheng Primary School drama class with script writer and director Themba Khoza of Art Smart Brand, and pupils Mamatsheu Ramalepe, Moira Bogoshi, Tshireletso Kwenaite, Jowie Mahloana and Boitumelo Malatjie, with their deputy principal, Peter Makgato. Kneeling are Ntebatse Seabela, Tshepo Moseamo, Joseph Maphuruma,m Harrison Hlapa and Beauty Ramogale.
MAMATSHEU Ramalepe, who played human in the script, explains himself to animals (fellow pupils behind him) that co-habit the earth with him.
IPHUTHENG Primary School drama class with script writer and director Themba Khoza of Art Smart Brand, and pupils Mamatsheu Ramalepe, Moira Bogoshi, Tshireletso Kwenaite, Jowie Mahloana and Boitumelo Malatjie, with their deputy principal, Peter Makgato. Kneeling are Ntebatse Seabela, Tshepo Moseamo, Joseph Maphuruma,m Harrison Hlapa and Beauty Ramogale.
Mamatsheu Ramalepe, who played human in the script, explains himself to animals (fellow pupils behind him) that co-habit the earth with him.
MAMATSHEU Ramalepe, who played human in the script, explains himself to animals (fellow pupils behind him) that co-habit the earth with him.
IPHUTHENG Primary School drama class with script writer and director Themba Khoza of Art Smart Brand, and pupils Mamatsheu Ramalepe, Moira Bogoshi, Tshireletso Kwenaite, Jowie Mahloana and Boitumelo Malatjie, with their deputy principal, Peter Makgato. Kneeling are Ntebatse Seabela, Tshepo Moseamo, Joseph Maphuruma,m Harrison Hlapa and Beauty Ramogale.
MAMATSHEU Ramalepe, who played human in the script, explains himself to animals (fellow pupils behind him) that co-habit the earth with him.
