Mozambique: SA mines offer computers

Mozambique: TEBA Offers Computers to the Education Ministry
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA

The South African mine labour recruitment company TEBA (The Employment Bureau of Africa) delivered on Monday computer equipment worth more than one million rands (about 149,000 US dollars) to the Mozambican Education Ministry to support education in the southern provinces of Maputo, Gaza, and Inhambane, where most of the Mozambicans working on the South African mines come from. The equipment, that includes 100 computers and other components, was handed to Education Minister Aires Aly by the chairperson of the TEBA board, James Motlasi ... 'Thousands and thousands of Mozambicans have died in the mines in South Africa. Now it is our turn to return this sacrifice. The current tendency is for Mozambicans to go to South Africa, and we want South Africans to start coming to Mozambique', he said ... Motlasi declared that South Africa must not continue acting in the same way as the colonisers, who used to send unskilled labour workforce to South Africa. 'We must become a qualified and competitive SADC (Southern African Development Community)', he said ... 'A school without Information Technologies will remain backward in meeting the country's education targets', said Aly. 'We want a modern education, that leads us to sustainable development ...