The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

Young people must take it upon themselves to ensure that they receive the highest education possible so that they can represent us well in future as future leaders.

The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success. It can contribute to nation-building and reconciliation.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education. Those who do not believe this have small imaginations.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.