As part of their Good Luck Campaign, Student Recruitment at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) recently visited Sastri College to donate over 200 stationery packs to the Grade 12s and pass on their well wishes ahead of their final exams
According to a timetable released by the Department of Basic Education, the National Senior Certificate (NSC) final examinations are set to begin on Monday, 31 October 2022 and end on Friday, 09 December 2022.
The Student Recruitment Manager at DUT, Mr Alex Mdletshe was accompanied by his two colleagues, whom are both Student Recruitment Officers at DUT, Mr Michael Zulu and Dr Sathishah Ramrathan.
Addressing the matrics, Mdletshe said: “We are here because you were one of our Top 26 feeder schools. This means your school is amongst the schools that gave DUT most students and we thought we should do something for you. The team prepared stationery packs that you can use during your final exams. We want to say to you good luck for your exams,” said Mdletshe.
He also handed over a certificate to the school as a token of appreciation from DUT, to acknowledge their mutual beneficial partnership.
The matrics were filled with excitement as their stationery packs from DUT were handed over to them. All seemed confident about starting their exams soon, with the hope that their hard work will pay off.
The School Principal, Mr Santosh Rajcoomar expressed his gratitude to the DUT for the support and fruitful partnership over the years.
“Thank you very much to the DUT for the partnership that we enjoy with the institution. Being neighbours and being so close to each other, we embrace the DUT as a great partner to us. We enjoy quite a few programmes with the DUT. We have been registered as the service provider for providing work integrated learning for the DUT interns. We have the DUT ICON office proving us with tutors for our learners in the gateway subjects, so we enjoying some really interesting partnerships with the DUT. We encourage lots of our learners to enrol with the DUT,” said Rajcoomar.
Passing his message to the Matric Class of 2022, Rajcoomar said they are looking for some great results. He indicated that he is aware that the past two years have been challenging, especially to the Class of 2022, who were in Grade 10 when the COVID-19 pandemic started.
“They have been through a difficult time, in the last two years, including this year. Sastri College and its loyal team of educators have done everything possible to support our leaners. We are hopeful that the results are going to be great,” concluded Rajcoomar.
Other schools that benefited from this campaign are Adams College, Empangeni High, Eshowe High, Gcinimfundo Secondary, Gugulesizwe Secondary, Masijabule High, Mconjwana High, Menzi High, Sinethezekile Secondary, Sithengile Secondary, Umthoqotho High, Velabahleke High, Vukile High, Zwelibanzi Secondary, Arena park Secondary, Marburg Secondary, Margot Fonteyn Secondary, Mthwalume High, Nkosibomvu Secondary, Pinetown Girls High, Port Shepstone Secondary, Sibusisiwe High, Verulam Secondary and ML Sultan Secondary.
Pictured: The DUT Student Recruitment team along with the Grade 12s and educators of Sastri College during the Good Luck Campaign.
Simangele Zuma
