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High achievers! Menzi High School teachers, second to fifth from left, with MUT’s DVC: Teaching and Learning, Professor Marcus

Ramogale, and DoE’s Nhlanhla Shandu

Principal of Menzi High School, Muntu Ntombela, left, and

Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga

The jewel of Umlazi Township, Menzi High School,

was recognised by Basic Education Minister, hon.

Ms Angie Motshekga, during the National Education

Excellence Awards, held in Pretoria on 13 March

2020 to recognise last year’s outstanding matric

performance. This school from the humble township

was represented by its principal, Ms Muntu Ntombela.

For many years Menzi High School has been serving

learners from mostly underprivileged communities.

Through its unmatched excellence, the school is

creating a legacy of quality education that will go down

in history long after those responsible have gone. At the

awards, Menzi High School was ranked second among

South Africa’s quintile 3 schools. The awards celebrate

excellence in district and school performance, focusing

on schools that have contributed to an improvement in

mathematics, physical sciences and bachelor passes

over the past five years.

Addressing the audience at the awards, Minister

Motshekga said, “You are living proof of the wise

words of Ralph Marston who said: ‘Excellence is not

an act but a habit’. You have displayed a zeal to adhere

Menzi High School ranked second in South Africa