MORUTSI Primary School in Tzaneen opened a computer classroom, equipped with 21 state of the art computers with Internet access last Friday.
They won this great prize in the Baswa le Metse Awards that MTN and the department of water affairs and forrestry (Dwaf) initiated. The Baswa le Meetse (Youth in Water) Awards aim to recognise the achievements of learners in teaching others about integrated water resource management, promoting water use efficiency as well as health and hygiene. The award process start with competitions on district, provincial and national level.
The school’s drama group participated in the competition last year and won the media classroom for their school. Deputy minister for Dwaf, Rejoice Mabudafhasi visited the school to officially open the classroom.
MTN Foundation senior manager, Eric Matsomane also attended the event and said MTN hoped that this classroom would be put to good use and that future engineers and IT specialists would start out their life journeys in this classroom.
He warned the school’s employees and learners to look after the computers and said the whole community should benefit from the classroom.
Mabudafhasi said the department would pay for Internet access at the school for two years and also pledged R6 000 in cash as part of the prize. She encouraged learners to look at careers in water management.
“We give bursaries to students who want to become water engineers. We need that skills development to address the water shortage in the country,” she said.
Morutsi’s principal, Peter Ramatsoma said the new classroom would be available to the community to use. He explained that the school would only charge a small fee to help maintain equipment.
