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Precasters helping our children
PRECASTERS
HELPING OUR CHILDREN
Primary school children are cheerfully playing and their school principal, teachers and administrators are comfortable, thanks to the generosity and support of CMA member Infrastructure Specialist Group (ISG), who donated much-needed office accommodation and paving to the Sifunindlela Primary School in Mpumalanga Province recently.
The company – which comprises Technicrete and Rocla, among others – donated a 12m fully insulated, containerised openplan office that will be used by the school’s principal, Jabulani Ndhlovu and some of its administrative staff. The fully insulated container, measuring 12,2m x 2,5m, has four aluminium sliding windows (900 mm x 1 200 mm), complete with fitted burglar bars and a steel panel entrance door with a lock set. In addition, the paving will address the serious problem of dust that is generated by vehicles and foot traffic from pathways and tracks inside the school property.
Principal Ndhlovu explains: “Sifunindlela Primary School has never had offices for staff, who – in the past – met for meetings in passages or under the lapa. Now, with the donation of this containerised office unit, we have privacy for meetings with staff and visitors. It enables us to house school records and confidential correspondence properly. We’re incredibly grateful to Rocla and Technicrete for these donations. It creates a proper working environment for myself and members of my team and makes a difference to how we work, giving us all a sense of pride in the school we’re managing.”
According to ISG Group marketing and communications manager Malebusa Sebatane, the company donated 16 sanitation units manufactured by Rocla to the same school in 2019, as it believes that proper sanitation in schools provides human dignity. “It was during this project that we became aware of the fact that Principal Ndhlovu had no dedicated office space not only for himself, but also for some of his administrative staff. ISG decided to donate this fully insulated, open-plan office space to the school to assist in providing a secure and stable office environment for him to carry out his duties,” she says.
Meanwhile, Technicrete also decided to donate 2 574m² of its Double Zig-Zag 60mm grey paving and financed a local contractor to clear the groundwork and install the paving around the school and new office.
Installation is from the entrance to the primary school, around the art class and the netball fields. The paving will improve the health and well-being of these young
children, in addition to creating safer and more durable walkways. The containerised open-plan office space is fitted with a 220V distribution board, four 4ft vapour-proof lights, four double-switch plugs, a single light switch and an 1 800 BTU-type air-conditioner. The unit has rubberised flooring with black pigmentation. The exterior of the unit has been wire-brushed, primed and painted in white enamel.
“Education in South Africa is of paramount importance. If ISG, in some way, can make a difference by providing a suitable environment for educators to perform their duties in safe and hygienic sanitation units for pupils, like those we’ve donated to Sifunindlela Primary School, then we believe we’ve played a part in the general upliftment of their environment,” says Sebatane.
