The school was in a poor state of repair. Apparently the Grade 6 and 7 learners were attached to another school and were reallocated to Arthur Mfebe this year. Due to internal politics and union issues these learners have received no tuition for the year in Mathematics and Science with no solution in sight.
There are plans to convert the school into an agricultural institution. The need is there as the community has plenty of water from the Lubisi dam near Cofimvaba which is channelled through irrigation furrows. The whole valley is littered with the remnants of houses for agricultural advisors that were destroyed due to political infighting. Sadly the community are the biggest losers.
We arrived to find the venue being cleaned with plenty of dust flying and desks and benches outside. I was under the impression that the venue had not been used for some time where the ceiling boards falling down, broken windows everywhere and bare wires protruding from none existent plug fittings. It was very depressing.
I took the decision to deploy the SMART interactive whiteboard after a power cord was extended from the next building. The learners responded as expected but no learners really stood out.
| Grade 8 | Grade 9 | |||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| 13 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 14 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12 |
| 16 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 17 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 18 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 19 | 1 | |||
| 20 | 1 | |||
| 9 | 18 | 12 | 21 | |
| 27 | 33 | |||
| TOTAL 60 |