We are so proud that one of our students, Avuyile Smile, was elected as the Eastern Cape provincial president of the Representative Council of Learners (RCL). In June, Avuyile was part of the delegation of learners that attended the National RCL Conference in Pretoria. We wish to congratulate Avuyile on the excellent presentation she made
Ekuphumleni High School was excited to once again welcome visitors from the Umckaloabo Foundation to the school in March. Six of the visitors were from Germany, whilst one was from Austria – for all of them it was the first time to visit Whittlesea, whilst for almost all of them it was the first time
We congratulate Nonceba Bonelwa for passing matric at the age of 39. After having failed grade 11 twice, Nonceba dropped out of school in 2005 and began working. However as time passed she realised that to provide for her daughter properly, she needed to get her matric so that she could have better opportunities. It
Samara Foundation and Ekuphumleni High spent some time creating a video to get to the essence of what the school is trying to achieve: giving their students the opportunity to realise their dreams through giving them the education they need to pursue their goals. See here what futures the students envisage for themselves – and
A group of Hospitality students took on the challenge of catering for a workshop that was being held at Ekuphumleni during the October holidays. For 4 days they catered to a group of ECD practitioners that were taking part in a MusicWorks workshop. Working within a stipulated budget, they made sure that everyone could enjoy
Liyabona Kwaza matriculated from Ekuphumleni in 2018 with five distinctions and is currently completing a BCom at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). We caught up with her to see how she is doing and what she remembers from her time at Ekuphumleni. What are you studying and how is it going? I am
The big moment has arrived which we have all been waiting for: the two new classroom blocks at Ekuphumleni are complete. We are eternally grateful to the Africa Run fundraiser and the Umckaloabo Foundation for making this possible. It has been a long journey to get to this point, through Covid and other challenges, however
The classroom walls are going up speedily at Ekuphumleni High School. We are grateful to have Peter Schnehage from Schniggs (Pty) Ltd on board; they are making every effort to get the classrooms up in record time. After the long delays experienced with the building plans, this is an exciting and welcome development. Here is
After many delays due to the pandemic, we are excited to announce that the building of the additional classrooms has started at Ekuphumleni. Six classrooms will be built in two additional blocks at the school. These classrooms will alleviate some of the pressure on the rotational teaching Ekuphumleni has had to implement since the start
Ekuphumleni’s top student of 2016, Vuyo Mbam, continues to achieve top results and was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship this month. Vuyo already made his mark in 2016 when he came top not only at the school, but in the district with 8 distinctions. He went on to study Engineering at Nelson Mandela University and now
