Piercing forward with the university’s motto to create futures, the Department of Management and Project Management will deploy 200 students to 20 high schools in the Southern District of Cape Town.

This Service Learning Project, which the department will execute in collaboration with the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), is a pilot based on the success of a project run last year by students at the Lentegeur High School in Mitchells Plain.

The pilot project, which will see CPUT students tutor learners,  was launched on the Cape Town Campus recently, and this year’s theme is "Give a teen a dream."

Angela Buys, head of the Management and Project Management Department, says the project complements the WCED’s ‘Learners at risk’ project.

“We are very excited about the project,” she says.

WCED's Metro South District Director, Glen van Harte, says peer learning is one of the most effective methods of learning as the age difference between the students and the learners is marginal, and therefore they speak the same language and share similar life experiences.

“We rely heavily on your support,” Van Harte pleaded with the students.

Lecturer Irshaad Desai says 20 groups of students will be assigned to different schools and that students from universities in Germany and China will also participate in the project.

Anele Gebenga, one of the students who initiated the project at the Lentegeur High School, says the school’s pass rate improved from 64% to 84% after their intervention.

*WCED will provide meals for everyone participating in the project as well as logistical support.

Written by Kwanele Butana
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Anele Gebenga, An MTech student in Business Administration, has walked away with this year’s Abe Bailey Travel Bursary Award following a rigorous selection process.

His political leadership in the South African Students Congress and the role he played in providing educational support to Lentegeur High School learners in Mitchells Plain earned him the prestigious award.

“You have been selected for your exceptional leadership qualities and community service and we congratulate you on this outstanding achievement. This prestigious award has been made to over 800 South African students of outstanding calibre since 1951,” reads the letter sent to him by the Abe Bailey Trust.

Anele says he wants to use his experience as motivation to the students he interacts with as a Retention Officer in the Project Management Department that, no matter where they come from their dreams can be fulfilled.

He has been applying to the award since 2016 when he first saw an advertisement on campus notice boards calling for applications to the bursary award.

Anele and his counterparts from other South African universities will benefit from the enriching educational tours and team-building exercises in Cape Town from 26 to 28 November, before departing for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the next day.

 “In Addis Ababa we’ll visit the African Union offices and some heritage sites before jetting off to the United Kingdom where we’ll visit the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh,” he says.

The focus of the Abe Bailey Trust is leadership development and the Trustees wish the bursaries to be awarded to persons who are academically strong and have shown exceptional qualities of leadership and service.

Written by Kwanele Butana
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