Plant a seed and see what will happen. The construction of the Media Studies Centre on the Gamalakhe campus is the end result of the co-operation between Sweden and South Africa.
It began with 2005 Global School Journey convenor, Bo Hellstrom, inviting Sibongile Zamisa and me to attend of the Global School Journey to Sweden project in September 2005, and the visit to his school, Lars Kagg Skolan, Kalmar.
There we met Rector Carl-Peter Linden who took up the challenge of twinning with eSayidi FET College, and he and Ingvar Carlsson, Mari Gasslander and Bjorn Paulsson visit us in 2006. In 2007, Rector Dr Sipho Nzimande visited Kalmar, as did Thabang Moeshoeshoe in 2008, and followed by the visit to us by Rector Carl-Peter Linden, Mr Håkan Källqvist and Mr Kent Olsson.
The end result is the construction of the Media Studies Centre on the Gamalakhe campus, using a number of the ideas gleaned from the visits to Lars Kagg Skolan, and the support of many.
Construction is due to be complete at the end of April 2009.
No seed can successfully grow unless it is nurtured, supported and valued, and this Media Studies Centre shows the worth of sharing ideas, co-operating and twinning.
Well done, everyone.
Pauline
