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} Jabulani Dlamini

WHILE the province is stillbasking in the glory of beingnumber one in the country interms of the matric results, forsiblings Modise and Mpho Motse ofthe informal settlement PieterSwartz attending school seems animpossible dream.Express understands the siblings

are but two of many in and aroundthe sprawling, low-income neigh-bourhoods commonly referred to asthe “phases” which lie spread outon the horizon to the south ofBloemfontein.When interviewed, 13-year-old

Modise and his 11-year-old sisterMpho were wearing dirty, tatteredclothing.“This girl has been wearing this

dress since before December. Sheregularly walks around here in themiddle of the night knocking ondoors begging for leftover food,”Matshilonyane Letsee said.Letsee said she had turned to

Express to help with these childrenafter she and her husband, Sekoala,had benefited from the generosityof Express readers following theirplea for help with their triplets.Asked if they had ever attended

school, Mpho said she had finishedonly gr. 1 while her elder brotherhad only attended the first term ofgr. 1.Their 20-year-old brother,

Thapelo Motse, who also onlyfinished gr. 1, explained that thingshad started going wrong for themin 2012 after their parents had diedwithin three months of each other.“Our father died in March of 2012

while our mother soon followed inJune of the same year. To behonest, I try, but I am unable tolook after these two, and I would

really appreciate any help we canreceive,” Thapelo said.Thapelo said they were currently

neither receiving any governmentassistance nor were they attendingschool because the children’sdocuments, including clinic cards,

had been taken by a social workerin August last year.“I know where that social

worker’s office is,” said Modisewho also said he could point outthe social worker who took theirclinic cards.

He said the social worker wasbased at the Sassa Building,commonly referred to as ‘The Flat’in Dr Belcher Road.)Watch Mpho and Modiseexplain their situation on yourcellphone at www.expresspa-

per.mobi or on the Expresswebsite at www.express-news.co.za.) You can follow JabulaniDlamini on Twitter@JabulaniD15 and Express@Express_News03.

Kids left destituteSiblingsplead forhelp to goback toschool

HELP US, PLEASE: Orphaned siblings Mpho (left) andModise (right) say they just need help to go back to school. With them is 7yearold Thabangwho also does not attend school. Photo: Jabulani Dlamini

A rebuengPage 4

Matric pass rate must be50%. – Prof. JonathanJansen Page 11

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} Sidwell Guduka

THERE were tears and joy when the 2014school year got off to a great start lastWednesday with all Mzansi’s schoolsopening on the same day for the firsttime.

Most of the pupils who were attendingschool for the first time were happy tostart their long educational journey,while there were tears from those whodid not want to stay in school.

One such child was Teboho Molelekoa(6) of Phase 4, outside Bloemfontein, whocried uncontrollably when his parents lefthim in the classroom at the RelebeletseCombined School. He has been enrolled

for gr. 1 for the current academic year.“I don’t want to attend school. I want

to go back home with you. Don’t leaveme behind, please!” Teboho screamedwith tears rolling down his cheeks as hisparents made their way out of hisclassroom.

But Teboho’s class teacher, NthabisengLekhehla, was on hand to make theyoung boy feel at home. And he soonbegan to enjoy his first lesson at school.

“Don’t cry, Teboho. Other learners willlaugh at you if you continue to cry likethis. We are going to take good care ofyou and give you the best education inthis school. You are also going to makegood friends and have a lot of fun here,”

Lekhehla assured Teboho.The other kid who shed tears on his

first day at school was Oratile Mahoko(5) of the Khayelitsha Squatter Camp inBloemfontein. The little boy started hisgr. R at the Rekgonne Secondary Schoollast week.

“Mommy, let me go home with you!Don’t leave me here. I want to go backhome,” Oratile cried when his mother lefthim in the classroom.

“Please take me back home!” hebegged.

Meanwhile, Noxolo Witman (6) was allsmiles to begin her school journey at theRekgonne Primary School and shepromised to work hard for the duration

of the academic year.“I’m very happy to be attending school.

I want to get educated so that I can be abetter person. It is easier to get a jobwhen you are educated,” Noxolo com-mented.

Duke Mphatsoanyane, the principal ofthe Rekgonne Primary School, said hisschool ensured that teaching and learningstarted on the first day.

“We are going to hit the groundrunning. Teaching and learning shouldbegin from today. We have received allthe learning material from the Free StateDepartment of Education. So now it’s upto us as a school to deliver qualityeducation to the learners,” he said.

‘Please takeme back home!’SHEDDINGTEARS:OratileMahoko cries in the classroomduringhis first day at the Rekgonne Primary School in Phase 4, Bloemfontein.

SEE HERE: Nthabiseng Lekhehla, a teacherat the Relebeletse Combined School, ensures that TebohoMolelekoa enjoys his firstday at school. Photos: Sidwell Guduka

IN TEARS: Teboho Molelekoa cried uncontrollably after his parents had left him at the Relebeletse Combined School in Phase4, Bloemfontein.

“I don’t want to attend school. I wantto go back homewith you . Don’ tleave me behind,please!” – TebohoMolelekoa

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} Sidwell Guduka

THINGSwent smoothly formost of the schoolsin the Free State on the first day of the schoolyear.But the opening of schools on Wednesday

was more of a headache for Relebeletse Com-bined School’s headmaster, Vuyo Lerotholi,who faced a big challenge on the day.There was no running water on the school

premises and as a result the principal had tosend learners home early, because the schoolcouldn’t stay open with no water.“We’ve been fighting this water problem

since last November. We’ve contacted the mu-nicipality several times but they just don’tcome to fix the problem.“I believe before we closed for the Christmas

holidays the municipal workers came here toassess the situation, but they just took a photoof the water meter box and left. Up until today,they have not come back,” Lerotholi told Ex-press last Wednesday.“I was at the municipal offices to report the

same problem again last Monday. Their staffpromised to come and fix it urgently. I wentthere again last Tuesday but they have notcome to solve the problem. I’ll go back thereyet again today to investigate why it is takingthe municipality so long to fix this problem,”he explained.“Our learners are very young children. It is

terribly hot and they cannot stay without wa-ter the whole day. Education cannot take placeunder the abnormal situation like this one.Wehave no other option but to send all our learn-ers home today. I’ll communicate this matterwith the Department of Education,” he said.Meanwhile, Lerotholi has appealed to the

parents whose children attend the RelebeletseCombined School to attend parents meetingswhen they are called.“I became the principal of this school to-

wards the end of last year. I called two meet-ings. The first one was attended better, but theattendance was very poor at the second one.

Wehaveabout 1 400 registeredpupils this year.I expect our school hall to be filled to capacitywhen we call parents meetings.“I think we need to market the school to a

level whereby the parents will understandwhat the school is. They should know what istheir role in the school setup. I’ll be calling ourfirst parents meeting soon and I appeal to par-ents to come in their numbers.“We normally discuss important issues at

these meetings. It is vital for every parent tobe present at all our meetings throughout theyear,” he continued.The former Hodisa Technical Secondary

School principal hadamessage forhis learnersand teachers.“Children must come to school to learn.

Theymust come to school as regularly as possi-ble. Nothing should prevent them fromcomingto school,” said Lerotholi.

“As for the teachers, I believe a teacher isa teacher because he or she has been called.Teaching is a profession of calling, it is not aprofession of money. So teachersmust be dedi-cated to their work, which is to teach learn-ers,” he concluded.) QondileKhedama, spokesperson of theMan-gaungMetro Municiplity, said the water prob-lem at Relebeletse Combined School was re-solved last Thursday.

Without water on first school day

VUYO LEROTHOLI, the principal of the Relebeletse Combined School. Photo: Sidwell Guduka

NEWS


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KE sa boela ke hoa madume.Selemo se fetileng se fetile letsa sona, bang se ba tsamaetsehantle, bang sa ba tsamaelahampe.

Ho bao se ba tsamaetsenghantle, pele ya pele, mme hobao se ba tsamaetseng hampe,hase mara hase ho fela.

Bophelong re iphumana rephela le batho ba kojwana dimahetleng, ba kollang ntsihanong. Ba bang ba kopane ledikgohola tsa bophelo mme‘Kgale le benya ba fetlama’.

Metwa le mewhabadi yatshotleho e kgomaretsemekokotlong ya bona, mmebofuma bo tjhatjhametsa jwaloka tsenene maphelong a bona.Ditlamorao tsa bofuma babona di sekisa meokgo.

Re keke ra phelang ha-monate kaofela harona, bangke barui, bang ke ba nang leho lekaneng, bang ho re baphele ba fufulelwa tsatsi letjhabang le le dikelang.

Empa ho na le ba bang baolentswe lena ‘Bofutsana’,ekareng ha le sa ba hlalosa

hantle.Ba hlophehile hona ho otlang

pelo. Batho ba ba shebela fatshejwalo kaha eka ha se batho kapaba na le monnko.

Ke ngola seratswana sena kerotloetsa tjhaba sa rantso ho bale pelo ya ho fana. Ebang ona ledijo tse salletseng ka kopo hle, oseke wa di lahla, ho na le mothoya ka dijang sa mpana phatloha.

Ebang o na le diaparo tsa kgaletseo oseng o sa di ratisisi, kapadi se di o haella, nehelana katsona hona le ho di tjhesa.Malapeng a rona ha o ka tadimi-sisa, re qhala dijo tse ngatahaholo.

Ka nako enngwe sena ha sebolele kapa ho hlalosa hore re nale tjhelete, empa ele tlwaelo hoba

hangata tlwaelo e hlola kelello.Dikolo di butswe, mme diket-

ekete tsa bana di kgutletsesekolong. Boholo ba bana bana boitllhophere haholo, ba bang batsamaya ka maoto, ba se na ledieta.

O tla pakelwa le ke ho omellahwa molomo wa ngwana feelaesale hoseng hore le thahamesoha e a feta pela hae.

A ke re shebeng ka maboko-seng diaparo tse seng di salekane bana ba rona, mme renehelaneng ka tsona ho bana badi hlokang.

Ba baka mohau haholo hobahahona letho leo ba ka le etsang,ke maemo ao ba iphumanang bale ka hara ona mme ba lokela hoa phela.

Le bona ba lakatsa eka ba katshwana le bana ba bang, ebe kethabo maphelong a bona hadikolo di bulwa, eseng bahloname ha kana. Ebang ho na lelelapa leo o le tsebang le futsane-hileng, kakopo hle pele o qhaladijo, le nahanele.

Ke a tseba hore batho ba bangbe ditlhong tsa ho fana. Ebang hole jwalo ke o phephetsa ho botsaka lefapha la thekolohelo tikolo-hong ya heno mme o ise engkapa eng feela eo okabang leyona ya kgale.

Ekaba dieta, diaparo, kobo,poletjhe ya dieta, jwalo jwalo. Kea o hlapanyetsa sena se ka etsaphethoho e makatsang bophelong

ba motho e mong.Re lokela re le batho ho

nahanelana, ha se setlamoempa ke moya wa botho.Ebang Ramasedi a o hlo-honolofaditse ka ho hongbophelong ba hao, nahanela yahlokang tlhohonolofatso eo.

Ke Motaung wa Rampai yareng: Mehoma mobung, tjhabasa Rantsho se none.) Mang kapa mang ya abatlang ho ngola kholomongena, a ka ikopanya leJabulani Dlamini ho 051-404-7910 kapa ho [email protected]) Mongodi ha ana holefiwa.

Ha rebe le pelo ya ho arolelana‘Ke a tseba hore batho ba bang ba ditlhongtsa ho fana... Thekolohelo tikolohong ya heno mme o ise eng kapa eng feela eo okabangle yona ya kgale...Ramasedi a o hlohonolofaditse ka ho hong bophelong ba hao, nahanela ya hlokang tlhohonolofatso eo.’ – Kutenwane Kareli

A re buengKutenwane KareliCultural Practitioner


NEWS

PARTY TIME: Little Keabetswe Dire (middle) celebrated her first birthday with friends and family at Chris HaniPark in Phahameng, Bloemfontein, over the weekend. Photo: Sidwell Guduka

Celebrating her first party in style

MAKGADI KOPANO,Maserame Kofa, a gr. 1 teacher at the Rekgonne Primary School, Olerato Senwamadi and Noxolo Witman hit the ground running when the schools openedlast Wednesday. THE first day at the Relebeletse Primary School in Bloemfontein’s Phase 4 lastWednesday.

Learning to read and write at school


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Are you getting people active at yourschool, community or gym? We want tohear from you.SuperSport’s Let’s Play identified the need

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} Pastor MutomboMoise

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} Sidwell Guduka

PROF. JONATHAN JANSEN, the rectorand vice-chancellor of the University of theFree State, said he believed that thematric results would come down thisyear.

He was speaking to the media at a pressconference held at the University of theFree State Campus in Bloemfontein onWednesday.

“I’m saying this because there is a newpolicy that was introduced by the end of2012, I think.

“It says that no student in the FETphase (gr. 10, gr. 11 and gr. 12) is allowed tofail more than once.

“That is if you fail twice you get a passautomatically,” said Jansen.

“In the Western Cape, this year theyhave 3 000 odd students who failed gr. 11last year, but they were forced to passunder this new policy.

“One of those kids got 6% in one of thesubjects.

“There is a whole lot of kids who are ingr. 12 in all the nine provinces. They areall bound to fail this year because theyactually failed gr. 11.

“That would bring down, if nothing else,the matric pass rate unless the provincesdefy the policy,” he said.

Last year’s matrics achieved a pass rateof 78,2%.

The Free State achieved the top marks of87,4%.

This was the highest pass rate in thehistory of post-1994 education in SouthAfrica after 2012’s 73,9%.

“We must judge success against the levelof the pass, not only the percentage passrate.

“If I tell you my research at this univer-sity has grown by 50%, what that couldmean if you didn’t know how to look forthe rotatory, is that I might have gonefrom one article to two articles,” said therector.

Jansen further said if the pass rate formatric was 50% last year, only 24% of thematrics would have passed their finalexaminations in 2013.

“Remember, a 50% pass rate means thatyou only know half the stuff in yourcurriculum.

“If that was the case last year only24% of the students would have passedas opposed to 78,2% that was achieved.

“That is scary,” said Jansen.“In my opinion, I think a 50% pass rate

should really be the standard by which weshould judge the performance of ourstudents, not 30% and 40%.

“That’s wrong,” he emphasised.

Jansen criticisesmatric results

PROF. JONATHAN JANSEN, the rector and vicechancellor of the University of the FreeState. Photo: Sidwell Guduka

NEWS

AS learners entered thesecond week of the 2014school year, inmates acrossthe country are registeringfor various educational andskills programmes.

Correctional ServicesMinister, Sibusiso Ndebele,has called on the heads ofSouth Africa’s 243 correction-al centres to encourage everyinmate to participate in suchprogrammes.

“The Department ofCorrectional Services (DCS)is implementing programmesaimed at turning around thelives of those who wrongedsociety.

“This will help theseinmates so that upon release,they are ideal, productive,law-abiding citizens.

“Inmates must work andstudy, and leave correctionalcentres with a skill in onehand and a certificate in theother hand,” Ndebele said.

“The hand that was used toharm others must be changedinto a hand which nowbuilds and heals. The trilogyof victim-offender-community

is central to all rehabilita-tion,” the minister added.

The Department of Correc-tional Services has increasedthe number of full-timecorrectional centre schoolsfrom only 1 in 2009 to 12 in2013.

This year, three additionalschools are scheduled foraccreditation includingRustenburg, Boksburg andthe Ekuseni Youth Centres.

Last year, the ministerannounced that, as from 1April 2013, it is compulsoryfor every inmate, without aqualification equivalent togr. 9, to complete AdultEducation and Training(AET) level 1 to 4.

Between April and Septem-ber 2013, 11 649 inmatesregistered for AET pro-grammes. From 2010 to 2013,73 881 inmates participated ineducational programmes.

Over the past two years(2012-’13), 559 inmates wrotegr. 9 to gr. 11 examinations,with an average pass rate of73% in 2013.– SAnews.gov.za

Inmatesmuststudy in jail

PRAVIN GORD-HAN, Finance minis-ter, invites the publicto submit tips on whatthey want to see in thecountry’s budget.

Tips on matters re-lating to tax and howgovernment can im-prove public financemanagement and ad-dress unemploymentare wanted. Gordhanwill present the bud-get toparliamenton26February at 14:00.

Tips can be sent viawww.treasury.gov.zaor toPrivateBagX115,Pretoria 0001. Fax 012-315-5126 or see PravinGordhan’s fan page/National TreasurySouth Africa, Face-book.

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BAFANA BAFANA may be out of the 2014Orange African Nations Championship(Chan), but the tournament still continues.South Africa’s national team crashed in a

heavy 1-3 defeat against Nigeria to finishthird in Group A behind the Super Eaglesand Mali. The outcome of the match in CapeTown on Sunday angered Sports MinisterFikile Mbalula.At a press briefing on Monday, the

outspoken Mbalula made some scathingcomments that Bafana Bafana were a “bunchof losers” and “unbearable, useless individu-als”.“What I saw there was not a problem of

coaching, it was a bunch of losers, who don’thave any respect for this country and don’thave any respect for anybody. The mediocri-ty displayed yesterday is something that weshould never wake up to see again,” Mbalulatold the reporters.“Their performance was not even lacklus-

tre, it was useless. We indeed have a crisis ofmonumental proportions. We don’t have acrisis of talent, we have a crisis of puttingeverything together.”The minister said he had felt like standing

up and walking out of the stadium duringthe match.“I saw people lining up after the game to

greet them. I won’t greet them, I didn’t evencall them.“In Africa we have won nothing – we are a

laughing stock. Even Madiba Magic wouldnot have worked. This generation of playerswe must forget.”South Africa started as the overwhelming

favourites, but were far from convincing intheir opening two encounters. In theirtournament opener, they came from behindto snatch a 3-1 win over Mozambique, beforethey were held 1-all by Mali in a match thatsaw some horrendous refereeing decisionsthat had worked in their favour.Meanwhile, Mauritania will entertain

Gabon in a tough Group A fixture at theFree State Stadium tonight at 19:00.On Saturday, the winner of Group C will

battle it out against the runner-up of GroupD in the quarterfinals in Bloemfontein. Thekick-off is scheduled for 20:30.The city of Mangaung will host the

semifinals next Wednesday. The firstsemifinal will start at 17:00, while the otherone will begin at 20:30.Tickets for CHAN are available at Com-

puticket outlets.

Win or lose, CHAN is still on

TUSSLE: Bernard Parker of South Africa is tackled by Souleymane Konate of Mali during the 2014 Orange African Nations Championship(Chan) Group A match in the Cape Town Stadium. Photo: Chris Ricco/BackpagePix

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