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Nansindlela_School abstract "Nansindlela School is a public school in the Lebombo Mountains, near the town of Ingwavuma, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Founded in 1993, the school has 450 students from preschool to grade 12 (matric), with a teaching staff of twenty. The school offers English-medium instruction to the local community, which is predominantly Zulu.The name Nansindlela means \"This is the way\" in Zulu.The school has won a number of awards for its permaculture projects. Classroom blocks funded by the Embassy of Japan, the DG Murray Trust and from other private funding were opened in 2001 by Minister of Education Kader Asmal and Japanese Ambassador Yasukuni Enoki. 2013 strike reportIngwavuma is a peri-ruralbackwater of KwaZulu-Natalbelow SA’s borders withSwaziland and Mozambique.There, a school beganorganically for very youngchildren in a house 20 yearsago. As children progressedthrough the grades, it becameknown as Nansindlela (“This isthe way” in Zulu), run by localparents and teachers who leftformal state employ.With discipline and devotedteachers, the nascent schoolflourished, attracting donatedequipment from Christiangroups abroad, British “gapyear” students helping toteach, buildings funded byNedbank, Anglo American andother corporates, Eskomproviding electricity, and“fields” provided by the localroads department.Self-run but absorbed into thepublic system, governmentpaid half the multi-racialteaching cohort, the othershired through R100 monthlyschool fees. In 2004,Nansindlela, graduated its firstmatric cohort while boastingthe top provincial choir, alongwith sports such as cricket,athletics, netball and soccer.This ground-up school wouldbecome the top performing ofits district for eight straightyears, hitting a regular passrate of up to 98%.Enter Sadtu in the form of aSowetan Level 1 teacher, Linda Skhonyana, posted toNansindlela in 2002, where heis alleged to have begun a“thatha zonke” campaign to ridthe school of white teachers.It was no easy ride, withinternal school hearingsfinding him guilty of variousmisconducts including theftand unauthorised absences toattend Sadtu gatherings. Butwith the school governingboard (SGB) failing to getdepartmental back-up,Skhonyana remained.More than that, he managed acoup – packing an SGBelection with friends and beingelected principal. Disciplinefaltered, corporate supportdried up, white teachers left,and truly bad luck fell uponSkhonyana. Just this year, heforgot, three times, to placeschool fees collected into theschool strong room. Threetimes they were stolen. Threetimes no break-in signs couldbe found.Part-time teachers wentunpaid or saw their salariesfall from R5 000 a month toR1 000. Discord in the teachercorps followed and last year’smatric results showed a 12percentage point fall. Now thematric class of 2013 haverebelled, locking theirprincipal out and demandinghis replacement.Backed by a communityparent committee, they wantnew SGB elections, newinvestigations into missingfunds, the axing of non-teachers they claim are onpayroll, and the like. Saysstudent spokesman RolihlahlaMzimela, “The principal ismostly away from school,attending union and politicalmeetings for up to a week at atime, yet leaving no properdelegation of duty at theschool”.A provincial departmentalinvestigation, due to last aweek, is now taking two, as 19student and parent grievancesare pored over. Skhonyana,who has declined to commentfor this article, is on leave forthe duration, and pupils areback in class after theirpeaceful action.Whatever transpires, it may bethat from faraway Ingwavumathe message of a road aheadwithout politicised teaching isbeing shown. It isn’t goodnews for Sadtu.".
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Nansindlela_School comment "Nansindlela School is a public school in the Lebombo Mountains, near the town of Ingwavuma, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Founded in 1993, the school has 450 students from preschool to grade 12 (matric), with a teaching staff of twenty. The school offers English-medium instruction to the local community, which is predominantly Zulu.The name Nansindlela means \"This is the way\" in Zulu.The school has won a number of awards for its permaculture projects.".
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