Johannesburg, 09 Feb 2005
Telkom CEO Sizwe Nxasana has handed over an ICT centre with satellite-enabled Internet access to Kgolouthwana secondary school in Limpopo province.
Speaking at the handing over ceremony, Nxasana said access to the Internet via very small aperture terminal technology would ensure Kgolouthwana learners join the information age.
Through Eric Moloto, a former Kgolouthwana student and current Telkom employee, Nxasana personally "adopted" the school and as a result, he donated the satellite-enabled Internet access computer laboratory.
Kgolouthwana headmaster Isaac Rankga says he himself is not computer literate and is excited at the prospect of the teachers and pupils mastering ICT.
Rankga and his teachers will receive computer literacy training through the help of Telkom and they will in turn educate their learners.
He says the school has 20 teachers and 691 learners, and the computer laboratory has 20 computers with Internet access. The school also has electricity and running water.
Rankga says learning how to use computers as well as having Internet and e-mail access "will give us an opportunity to prepare our young learners for the ICT world".
"Not only are we excited to have an ICT centre but we hope that at a later stage we will multiply the number of computers we have."
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