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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