Actonville Primary School received 100 food hampers

Learners from Actonville Primary School received 100 food hampers from the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation on March 25, as well as a message of encouragement and solidarity from the Foundation’s Chairperson, Professor Firoz Cachalia.

Cachalia is no stranger to the Actonville community as he was raised there and highlighted that his most important memories were made in the area.

He currently teaches administrative and constitutional law at the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Law.

An admitted attorney, he was also a vibrant student activist at Wits.

He received a first-class pass for his LLM qualification from the University of Michigan in 1996. Before 1994, he made an active contribution to the opposition movement to apartheid, to the transition to democracy, and subsequently to the consolidation of democratic institutions.

He has held various leadership positions in the opposition movement, the Gauteng Provincial Legislature between 1994-2004 as well as non-executive Director of the South African Reserve Bank and on the boards of several Foundations and civil society Organisations, including the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation.

Cachalia reminisced on the time he was in school and pointed out that he lived a few streets away from the school.

“Your school’s five values which are love, truthfulness, no violence, right actions, and peace is an important foundation to live by as you all grow up to become successful adults.

“Becoming a public servant is the highest aspiration and it is an honour to come back home and select your school to take part in this small gesture,” he said.

Vanessa Moodley principal of the school thanked the foundation for its generous donation.

“We currently feed 450 learners daily and send them home with vegetables on a Friday to supplement for the meals for the weekend.

“We are grateful that these hampers will feed the learners for about a month,” she said.

Grade R learners sang the values song, while the grade sevens recited a poem of gratitude. The school presented the foundation’s employees with small gifts of gratitude.

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