Mayor awards bursaries

Mayor Lulama Mvimbi last week granted bursaries to 13 Bitou students to further their tertiary qualifications. The money was raised at the Mayoral Golf Day function held in November last year at the Plettenberg Bay Country Club. The students each received R10 000 to pay towards their studies at the tertiary institution of their choice.

Update on the Mayor’s Education Indaba

 Much work has been done since the Mayor's Bitou Education Indaba held in  August last year. The Minister of Education, Ms Naledi Pandor, and the MEC for Education, Cameron Dugmore, visited Bitou in October last year and   were presented with a detailed report of progress made towards the Bitou Integrated Education Plan. 

 The Executive Mayor's task team, comprising representatives from each educational sector in Bitou, is purposefully taking the required research and documentation process forward. Two task team workshops were held so far this year. Once a draft plan is ready, it will be reported back to the delegates of the 4 August Education Indaba. This will give stakeholders the opportunity to scrutinize and comment on a proposed strategic plan.

 The Bitou 10 Foundation continues to facilitate the process by hosting task team workshops; making it possible to have the services of facilitator Johan Ryk.

 The task team meets again for a workshop on 12 March. The Bitou 10 Foundation is of the view that a 'tipping point' has been reached in Bitou. Every successful innovation that impacts on society has a 'tipping point' where change transforms itself exponentially from enjoying a limited local or sectional interest to become a mass phenomenon. Society is not just demanding excellence, but is prepared to take some responsibility for it happening. When reform, instead of being imposed from above, becomes owned by those involved, transformation really does occur.