KZN govt emphasizes need to close educational inequality

The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government has emphasized the importance of closing the gap of educational inequality between rural and urban schools through improving digital literacy programmes.

Today, Premier Thami Ntuli officially launched the Nkandla and Bizimali Digital Centres situated in the province’s deepest rural parts.

The launch is in partnership with the Durban University of Technology and other stakeholders.

The state-of-the-art digital centres are designed to provide rural communities with access to high-speed internet and digital skills training.

Ntuli has called on more universities to adopt rural schools.

“It’s important that the collaboration between the Durban University of Technology, the Moses Kotane Institute of Research, the Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs in KZN and Nkandla Municipality in fact is finding expression but not here but in also parts KZN. And I’m quite aware that while we are launching this program here also we are unveiling the project which is at Bizimali Computer Lab . In disadvantaged communities, when you talk about a computer lab, you talk about something which is a jewellery to them, because they have nothing and it’s important that we close those gaps,” says Ntuli.