FRIDAY, October 13 marked yet another memorable day in the history of Uitenhage High School.
Kashif Wicomb served as deputy-headboy during his Matric year at Uitenhage High School in 1988 and he currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Adenco Construction (PTY) LTD, based in Cape Town. Recently, his company partnered with AWQAF to supply his alma mater with 31 brand-new computer sets, a server and a data projector for the school’s Computer Applications Technology (CAT) laboratory.
Uitenhage High School counts amongst a limited number of schools in the Nelson Mandela Bay Education District offering the subject CAT.
In recent times, the educators and learners involved with the subject experienced huge frustration due to the fact that the existing computers are outdated. This definitely had a negative impact on the results of the subject.
According to Wicomb, the aim of sponsoring the school was not only to provide the school with modern, urgently-needed computer hardware, but to also give the venue its own, unique character. Hence, the decision to dedicate the naming rights to his beloved parents, Ebrahim and Ayesha Wicomb.
Ebrahim is a former Chairperson of the Uitenhage High School Governing Body, whilst Ayesha served the school as School Secretary previously.
In opening the Ebrahim & Ayesha Wicomb Resource Centre, Kashif Wicomb expressed his immense gratitude to all the teachers (both past and present) of his alma mater for the role they played in his personal and professional development.
Mark Williams, principal of Uitenhage High School, thanked Wicomb and his partners for their generous contribution to the advancement of quality education at Uitenhage High School. Furthermore, he expressed the wish that this venture would pave the way for the establishment of more mutually-beneficial partnerships between the school and the private sector.
