McDonald's South Africa CEO Greg Solomon (white T-shirt) and Primestars MD Martin Sweet (black suit) pose for a picture with some of the East Bank High School boys before the mentorship programme and movie. Photo: Sipho Siso
The notoriety at East Bank High School around the use of drugs and other substance abuses and the high incidents of teenage pregnancies has attracted various change-makers who are determined to root out the social ills.
McDonald’s staffer Mamello Raborifi and Primestars MD Martin Sweet took time off from their busy schedule on the day to pose for a picture. Photo: Sipho SisoFront: Anathi Vuso and Kolane Lentsoane and Back: Miyolane Manganyi, Vutomi Hlongwani and Phakiso Ratlhahane at the mentorship and movie session. Photo: Sipho Siso
High on the list of the change-makers was the Gauteng Department of Social Development and its partners, who came to the school to address the problems together with learners and their parents and community members on October 27 with their Ke Moja without drugs programme.
East Bank High School’s towel boys, Simphiwe Maleko and Lindokuhle Zondo at at the mentorship and movie session. Photo: Sipho Siso
Another change-maker that also jumped into the fray was Primestars with its behavioural change movie, What About the Boys? With so many incidents of teenage pregnancies in the school, some suspected to emanate from within the school, East Bank High boys and some from neighbouring KwaBhekilanga Secondary School were roped into the mentorship programme on their journey ‘from boys to good men’.
KwaBhekilanga boys at the mentorship and movie session are Tshepo Sekgotlaboraga, Miyekeni ‘Advocate’ Manganye, Witness Kubayi and Oscar Shibambo. Photo: Sipho SisoFormer journalist Sandile Memela, McDonald’s South Africa CEO Greg Solomon and his wife Lisa are seated. At the back is Primeatars’ Nkosinathi Moshwana, former McDonald’s corporate affairs director Sechaba Motsieloa and Primestars MD Martin Sweet before the mentorship and movie session with the school boys. Photo: Sipho Siso
McDonald’s South Africa CEO Greg Solomon mentored them with an early morning chat before they watched the movie, which seeks to transform them into good men of the future.
Some of the boys from East Bank High School at the mentorship session with McDonald’s South Africa CEO Greg Solomon. Photo: Sipho SisoSome of the East Bank High School boys who were also at the mentorship and movie session are Thabisani Mthembu, Malose Johannes Legodi, Daluxolo Makhubela and Malesela Letsoalo. Photo: Sipho Siso
