Western Cape MEC for Education Cameron Dugmore will on Thursday 18th August 2005 visit several rural schools in the Southern Cape,to address various issues affecting learners and communities in these remote, historically neglected areas.

As part of the MEC's commitment to building a Learning Home for All, he will, inter-alia hand over shoes and school bags, launch a school food-security programme, offer his support to the parents and school of the learner who was raped and killed last weekend, and discuss with the community of Brandwacht the outcome of the inquest into the death of grade 5 learner, Aubrey Peterson (11), who died tragically when the wall of a mobile classroom under construction collapsed on the site.

The Full Programme is as Follows:

07h30: Handover of shoes and bags to children at Uitvlugt school. (Details to follow).
10h15: Launch of agriculture project, Olympia School, George. (Details to follow).
12h15: Visit parents of Pacaltsdorp HS girl who was murdered and raped last weekend, at parents' house. (Details to follow).
12h45: Visit school and talk to assembly for 15 minutes (EMDC to arrange), Pacaltsdorp HS.
14h45: Visit to St. Blaize Primary School, Moselbay.
18h00: Meet Aubrey Petersen's family, Brandwacht Primary School.
19h00: Community meeting with MEC Marius Fransman, Brandwacht Primary School (Details to follow).

For enquiries, contact Gert Witbooi: 082 550 3938, or witbooi@pgwc.gov.za.