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Closing the digital gap: Cell C, Vhembe district municipality usher technology in exemplary rural schools
TO Joshua Moela, closing the digital divide especially in education is a call that telecommunication company, Cell C, will heed within its means of operations. Moela, the company’s managing executive for government relations, was all too aware that the digital divide between metropolitan and rural areas was enormous and the company had to respond within its means. It has also been recognised that the administration in numerous schools in rural areas, such as in the Vhembe region in Limpopo, were still very manual. It was against this background that Cell C heeded a request by the Vhembe district municipality to empower schools that excelled despite odds and situated in deep rural areas – stretching from Midoroni in the Ha-Kutama area to villages on the outskirts of Malamulele town. At a ceremony in Thohoyandou on Wednesday, 17 schools were handed over laptops with modems loaded with 10GB of data, and headphones. […]
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