Galway Primary celebrates Mandela Day

Students and community members dedicate their 67 Minutes of community service to beautifying the Galway Primary School.

Grade Seven students Makisha Brand (left, back), Titus Moeti, Ntando Khoza and Olivier Nshimba, as well as Chole Scheepers (left, front), Palesa Simelane and Mapule Mokoena, spoke to the GCN about their feelings about Mandela Day. All the students agreed that the day offers the community a chance to help those in need and to make a difference in their individual communities. For more photos v

The students of Galway Primary School and a number of community members took time to get involved the school’s Mandela Day celebrations.

Rathabeng Mamabolo (left) and Desiree Mohanned dedicated their time this Mandela Day to beautifying the Galway Primary School.

A sassy six-year-old Sisanda Ndabezitha shows you can’t be too young to lend a helping hand on Mandela Day. Here she strikes a pose while helping to beautify the Galway Primary School gardens, as part of her Mandela Day celebration.

Johanna Ndabezitha smiles sweetly as she cleans the bricks surrounding the gardens outside of Galway Primary School. Ndabezitha and her daughter got involved in Galway’s Mandela Day celebrations, as one of her daughters is a teacher at the school.