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GautengOnline another step forward

By Tracy Burrows, ITWeb contributor.
Johannesburg, 08 Mar 2004

Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa handed over GautengOnline ICT laboratories to 67 schools at the weekend, in line with plans to roll-out ICT facilities to 1 100 schools by the end of this month.

Shilowa officially handed over the labs, which included 1 645 PCs and a server, DVD equipment, VCR and television for each school, at a Decade of Freedom and Democracy celebration at Eldorado Park Stadium yesterday.

The latest roll-out will benefit 70 000 pupils at schools in Eldorado Park, Lenasia and Orange Farm.

The GautengOnline project aims to give every child in Gauteng access to a computer and an e-mail address by the year 2006. Earlier this year, Gauteng MEC for education Ignatius Jacobs said the project was on track, albeit with a "very tight schedule".

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