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Inviting all eligible Grade 12 learners to apply for a bursary to study further.

Current Bursary recipients are welcomed to apply.

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Bursaries give 82 candidates the chance of improving their lives.

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Varsity beckons for Mitchells Plain youth

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Despite the constant threat of gang violence, the Oval North High School class of 2015 almost achieved a 100% pass rate.

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Mitchells Plain school under constant threat from gangs achieves 95.1% pass rate

For the first time in Mitchell’s Plain’s 35-year history, Spine Road High (Principal Mr Riyaad Najaar) – achieved a 100% matric pass rate in 2014. The Mitchell’s Plain Bursary and Role Model Trust was launched at this school on 16 June 2011.

Spine Road High achieves 100% pass rate

Jayson David George (18), who passed with eight distinctions and was among the Top 20 matriculants in the Western Cape in 2014. Jayson received a bursary from the Mitchell’s Plain Bursary and Role Model Trust and is studying Law at UCT.

Glendale produced Mitchell’s Plain's top student

Riyaad Najaar, Principal of Spine Road High School:

“Since inception of the Trust there has been a buzz and excitement and greater hope among our children from Mitchell’s Plain to want to go to university. Over the past 3 years we have had 15 recipients from Spine Road High. We can attribute our school’s 100% pass rate in 2014 partly to the Mitchell’s Plain Bursary and Role Model Trust, because our learners now know that their dreams can be realised.”

Mobilising access to further education and opportunity for Mitchell’s Plain youth, who will build hope and blaze a trail for others to follow.

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Tafelsig teacher meets president

Courtney Edwards, from Tafelsig, met President Cyril Ramaphosa after the State of the Nation Address debate during a sitting of the two houses of Parliament on Thursday, February 14. Read the full article.    

Manuel urges youth to uplift community

AT A recent gathering of students who benefited from an education trust which he founded, former finance minister Trevor Manuel was intro- duced as “the world’s longest-serving finance minister”. Read the full article.    

‘Jump at your chances…’

Former finance minister Trevor Manuel has urged university students to “grab opportunities with both hands” as they navigate the world outside of school. Read the full article.    

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Tips from the Trust

Maths literacy is not accepted at tertiary level for any B.Sc. degree, or for studying medicine, finance, architecture or engineering. We strongly urge learners from Grade 9 onwards to take pure Mathematics and NOT Maths Literacy.

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