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Computer project gives 800 000 pupils a cyber-boost - Argus, 3 April 2009

Nearly 800 000 pupils in Western Cape schools now have access to computers to boost their learning, thanks to the provincial education department’s Khanya project.

The project has installed computer laboratories at more than 1 000 schools in the past eight years.

Celebrating the achievement yesterday at Capricorn Primary School, provincial education head Ron Swartz said the project went further than installing computers and teaching computer literacy, to developing models for electronic education especially suited to poor communities.

To date, the project has featured in 14 award programmes, nine of which it won and was a finalist in another five.

“While we celebrate these achievements, our great reward has been the delight in the eyes of young children in poor communities as they log into the amazing world of cyber-learning for the first time,” Swartz said.

Khanya, which means “light” in Xhosa, started in April 2001.