Thozi Ngeju works for the VSA and is the community coordinator for the Grahamstown-Rhini region.
He teaches awareNet to the learners at various different schools in the township.
(Click here to find out more about Thozi)
"So far January has been slow because of the holiday. However, I’d like to note that this should be a very busy months, in terms ofpreparation. I need to contact the Grahamstown schools that I’d workedwith already – Nathaniel Nyaluza High School, Mary Waters Hoer Skool, Benjamin Mahlasela Secondary School, Fikizolo Primary School, C.MVellem Primary School, Ntsika Secondary School, T.E.M MrwetyanaSecondary School and Nombulelo Secondary School. It would be nice tocarry on from where the learners and I had left off.
There were those schools that I did not work with but who had shown aninterest (Ntaba Maria Primary School, Archie Mbolekwa Higher PrimarySchool and George Dickerson Primary School; and those (D.D SiwisaPrimary School) who, apparently, had computers but needed to find andset them up in some room and get Internet connection. I have to findout the progress on those.
Besides these, I have been working on the South African Quotationsproject on awareNet that I don’t think I’ll ever finish because there are so manybooks, periodicals, video clips and cassette tapes (with the help ofthe Cory Library) that I need to browse through to say I went throughsufficient data for the project to deserve its title.
I also tried to start another project on awareNet about the township taverns inGrahamstown. For the uninitiated, the definition of a tavern in thetownships is “a place where people can have a good time, get drunk andlisten to loud music from a jukebox”. But I met there too many formerclassmates that have lost a sense of direction that it depressed me somuch I’m not sure if I want to work on the project anymore."
