The Siyakhula Living Lab : An important step forward for South Africa and Africa
The declaration by Communications Minister, Dina Pule underpins the initiative called the Siyakhula Living Lab, launched in 2006 by Rhodes University and the University of Fort Hare in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development in a marginalised rural community in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.The 20 000 people who are part of this community live in what is known as ‘Dwesa’ in the Mbashe Municipality, close to the Wild Coast’s Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve. ....
Click here to read more on the Siyakhula Living Lab stakeholder experiences in this recently published 64 page document, courtesy of the Department of Marketing and Communication at Rhodes University.
See below the Xhosa lyrics, as composed and sung by pupils from Lower Ngwane SPS ;-)....
Neziswa "Pinky" Mcinga was 23 years old and at a dead end when computers came to her community in the deep rural region of Dwesa on the Eastern Cape's Wild Coast. "I completed my matric in Dwesa in 2001 and afterwards I worked here and there as a domestic worker in East London, but what i really wanted to do was study, " explains Mcinga.Her prospects for tertiary education were nonexistent because her father, Fundile Mcinga, who raised her and who lives in Dwesa, is unemployed and lives on a disability grant...
