Kagiso Trust InBrief Issue#17 August 2015 Aug 2015 | Page 14

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FOREWORD FROM FREE STATE
EDUCATION MEC TATE MAKGOE

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s we celebrate 30 years of Kagiso
Trust’s selfless community service,
let me take this opportunity to
express my gratitude on behalf
of the learners, parents and department
officials for being bestowed once again an
opportunity to pen this foreword.
The Free State Department of Education and
Kagiso Trust have a long-standing, close and
warm relationship. Our partnership dates
way back to 2007 when this programme was
focusing on 10 secondary schools in Qwa
Qwa.
To date the BNSDP has invested R180
million to 166 schools in Maluti-A-Phofung
Municipality. This not only benefits
the municipality but is a long term and
sustainable investment for the province and
the country’s economy as a whole.
For the first time this year, six out of the seven
schools that we rewarded with infrastructure
at the recent BNSDP Infrastructure Launch
were primary schools. The reward came in
the form of infrastructure facilities designed
to improve learning and teaching in our
schools.
This is a clear demonstration of the BNSDP’s
commitment to restore dignity to education
by creating a conducive environment for the
provision of quality education at all levels of
the system.
We congratulate Beacon Secondary School,
Kgoledi, Bodibeng, Nexus, Sekgothadi,
Sentebale and Boitelo Primary Schools for
being the recipients of the new state-ofthe art infrastructure. The infrastructure
includes life science laboratories, computer
laboratories, libraries and ablution facilities.

2015 also marks 60 years since the adoption
of the Freedom Charter. Together, w