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FROM THE COLLEGE PRINCIPAL

Cool season, cool College and cool2b@swgc

The publication of this newsletter coincides with the advent of summer, the season of coolness, excitement and vigorous growth. However, the students of SWGC will attest that for them, coolness, excitement and vigorous growth never actually set, as in the sun in the Roman Empire of old!

This newsletter is also coming out at a time when all of us at the college are putting the final touches to everything that we have been about this year, 2010. Our educators have been doing the last bit to ensure that their students will have a winning chance in the imminent examinations and the students themselves have been giving it their last all, to ensure that the dream that brought them to South West Gauteng College materializes, at least for this year.

We have, together with our students gone through a lot this year, but in all of it, they, in particular, proved to be resilient and showed that they were not going to allow themselves to be easily distracted – not by anything. Even with the recent public servants strike, which affected at least one

of our campuses, our students kept on coming to college, even if it meant being mostly on their own. And seeing them show this unparalleled commitment to learning further filled our faith in them and in the future.

It is largely our students who brighten and render the college and its campuses cool places to be, but indeed, our personnel also go a long way in magnifying this brightness and coolness. Admittedly, this newsletter is not even a glimpse of what life is like at the college, but it is all that can be squeezed into its limited pages.

The real taste of the college will always be in coming to the college and experiencing it for yourself. The matriculants and Grade 11 students of this year, 2010, have the opportunity of doing this next year and then understanding why it has become generally accepted that is 'cool2b@swgc.

As you move your eyes through the pages of this newsletter, it is hoped that you will yourself experience, albeit to a limited extent, the glitter and brightness that our students and staff have created at the college and that in time, you will yourself see why our students have coined the phrase: 'cool2b@swgc'.

Bayete! Pula!

Dan L Nkosi