{"id":195187,"date":"2019-01-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/195187\/hawk-academy-celebrates-third-birthday\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:29:05","slug":"hawk-academy-celebrates-third-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2019\/01\/24\/hawk-academy-celebrates-third-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawk Academy celebrates third birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popular Primrose school, Hawk Academy, celebrated its third birthday last Monday.<\/p>\n

In 2014, husband and wife Sipho and Agnes Mkhonto had an idea – to open a school catering to children from the Makause, Marathon and Delport informal settlements.<\/p>

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After managing to secure premises, previously owned by a mining company, on Main Road, the hard work began for the now director and principal of Hawk Academy.<\/p>\n

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Pastor Mandlenkosi Zwane gave a brief sermon to get the celebrations going at Hawk Academy last Monday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re celebrating our third year, which is technically our fourth if you take the challenging 2015 into account,\u201d Agnes joked.<\/p>

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Once the paperwork was done, in 2015, the Mkhonto family spent the year transforming the offices that once stood there into classrooms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat year was dedicated to the logistics of getting the school officially off the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to an ever-increasing to-do list, we were sure we\u2019d only open the school in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, when doing marketing in Marathon informal settlement one day, a number of parents told us their children had no space in the other schools in the area and they needed the school to open in January the following year,\u201d Agnes said.<\/p>\n

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