Mandela School of Science & Technology opens in South Africa

From left to right: Mandla Mandela, Chief of Mvezo and Head of the Royal House of Mandela, Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, Siegmar Proebstl, CEO Siemens South Africa, Angie Motshekga, Minister of Basic Education, and Noxolo Kiviet, Minister of the Eastern Cape, at the opening of the Mandela School of Science & Technology in Mvezo, South Africa, on January 17, 2014.

The Mandela School of Science & Technology, which was financed and built by Siemens, has now opened in Nelson Mandela's birthplace of Mvezo, South Africa. As the region's first high school, the facility will provide up to 700 children and young people with access to secondary education. The curriculum is focused on technology, the natural sciences, engineering and agriculture. "With the construction of a school in his birthplace, Siemens is fulfilling a wish of Nelson Mandela's," said Siegmar Pröbstl, CEO of Siemens South Africa, at the school's opening. The school is a testament to Nelson Mandela's conviction that education is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change the world.

Guest of honor at the opening ceremony was South African President Jacob Zuma. "I am honored to be part of this opening ceremony of the Mandela School of Science & Technology. It is the first school of its kind in Mvezo, for secondary education and fully-equipped for studies in science and technology. Siemens is giving the learners of Mvezo and this region the opportunity for an education, that Nelson Mandela has dreamt of," said Jacob Zuma.

Source: Siemens website (Press)