Mdantsane Township learners blew their provinces’ socks off with matric results that were nail-bitingly close to full marks; marks they earned against a myriad of challenges including the pandemic, but never let stop them on the way to their dreams:
East London, South Africa (26 June 2024) — Mdantsane Township Learners in the Eastern Cape blew their provinces’ socks off when it came to their matric results!
Their achievements in Maths and Science were so impressive that they were recognised and awarded at an East London award ceremony. The celebration not only commended their exceptional results but also the challenges that were overcome to get to those results.
The Mdantsane Township learners not only had to strive for excellence against the backdrop of challenges that impact South Africa’s second-largest township but also years of pandemic disruption that reshaped an education system facing its own myriad of challenges.
Despite this, the determined learners still put their heads down and and made the most of the resources available to them, one of which (an after-school tutoring programme, Promaths at Buffalo City’s Kutlwanong Centre for Maths, Science and Technology) proved to be a powerhouse; helping catapult some of them into the class of achievers who earned grades nail-bitingly close to 100%!
Topping the list was Ulwazi High School’s Angesisa Sithole, who achieved 98% in mathematics and 93% in physical sciences, giving her a 96% average in these subjects. Her overall NSC finals recorded a whopping seven distinctions.
Hot on her heels in second place was Othandwayo Ngumbela who scored a 92% average and Iviwe Sontlaba (91%).
For the programme’s top Grade 11 learners, Khuseleka Nanto earned a 92% aggregate for maths and science, and in Grade 10, Asanda Mhlom earned 89%!
In more good news, from the after-school programme, in the space of only two years, the general baseline pass rate for maths among matric classes has grown from 62% (Grade 10) in 2021 to 100% in 2023, while the physical science pass rate moved from 63% to 100% in the same amount of time.
Sources: Supplied
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