Mnquma Local Municipality executive mayor, Tunyiswa Manxila-Nkamisa, has donated a wheelchair to Siyamamkela Toli of Reservoir Hill near Yako Informal Settlement in Butterworth. He was among three beneficiaries that received newly-built houses from the municipality in November last year.
Toli lives with a disability that makes it difficult for him to move around, having been born with deformed limbs.
The wheelchair was handed over to Toli on February 20.
According to Mnquma Local Municipality spokesperson, Loyiso Mpalantshane, the wheelchair was sourced through the municipality’s special programmes unit which is tasked with improving the lives of the previously disadvantaged members of the community, including women, elderly persons, children and people living with disabilities.
Meanwhile, Manxila-Nkamisa has also led the municipality’s Back-to-School programme which saw the municipality donating 183 school uniforms, as well as dignity packs, to six schools spread across the municipality’s three towns of Butterworth, Ngqamakwe and Centane.
Schools that benefitted from the initiative include Mntla, Magwaza, Hlanganani, Siseko, Sophakama and Lower Mzazi primary schools.
“The Back-to-School programme was aimed at encouraging high school attendance and boosting the morale of learners, whilst also encouraging education as a key to success,” said Mpalantshane.
