TEACH News

TEACH South Africa teamed up with one of its funders, the Old Mutual Foundation, for this year’s Take a Girl Child to Work initiative. Fifteen Grade 11 learners from Eden Park Secondary School, one of the schools on the TEACH South Africa programme, were invited to Old Mutual’s Head Office in… Read more

The Barloworld Group has launched a volunteerism programme which will see staff from the group’s head office and subsidiaries donating their time and skills in an effort to improve the education system in South Africa. Barloworld is one of TEACH South Africa’s strategic partners, providing support, both financial and in kind,… Read more

12 schools in the Thokoza Cluster of Ekurhuleni South took part in a Maths Table Challenge on Monday, July 19, at Maphanzela Primary School. The challenge involved top learners from Grades Four to Seven answering multiplication and division problems in less than 10 minutes. One of the objectives is to “improve… Read more

Nwabisa was born and raised and Cape Town and became a TEACH Ambassador in January 2010. She teaches English to Grade 9, 10 and 11 students at Siphamandla Senior Secondary School, an experience she says has been life-changing. Nwabisa became a TEACH Ambassador because she wanted to use the opportunities she… Read more

We currently have 63 TEACH Ambassadors placed in schools in Gauteng, the Western Cape, Limpopo and the Eastern Cape. Our 2011 goal is to place an additional 150 TEACH Ambassadors in schools and continue to grow the programme in these provinces. At the end of June 2010, over 600 young adults… Read more

Gill Atwood (TEACH South Africa) and Tim Ellis (Face Africa) facilitated and organised that pupils from Bradway Primary School in Sheffield, England, visited two schools in Ekurhuleni South, Gauteng. The first school visit was to Jongimfundo Primary School in Vosloorus. The principal, teachers and a few parents who accompanied the young… Read more

The Old Mutual Foundation, Heartbeat, the Department of Education and TEACH South Africa have formed a partnership to support Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in schools in Ekurhuleni South, Gauteng. Richard Masemola, founding member of TEACH South Africa, outlines the programme’s focus areas as: the delivery of afternoon classes; homework supervision… Read more

TEACH Ambassadors have been reflecting on what kind of legacy they will leave behind, ahead of Mandela Day this weekend. Mandela Day is an annual event that falls on July 18, Nelson Mandela’s birthday, and calls on people from all walks of life to dedicate 67 minutes of their time to… Read more

Learners from schools across the country are part of 125 young South Africans taking part in a week-long annual forum, held this year from July 4-9 at the African Leadership Academy in Honeydew, Johannesburg. Called enke: Make Your Mark, this social entrepreneurship model and education initiative aims to inspire and equip… Read more

“It is no longer enough to have a qualification; graduates need to be developed further to meet the demands of the workplace.” These were the words of Ursula Fear from Deloitte at the recent leadership development workshop and networking session held at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, giving 2009 TEACH Ambassadors guidance… Read more