ICT BARRIERS IN SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa is amongst the top 50 countries that are more developed, they are more advanced in terms of technology and being connected in the world wide web/ net / internet. This has seen South Africa being rated the most well developed country. The internet surely has provided the country with so many possibilities and we’ve seen things happening. For example we’ve seen the country hosting astronomical events and extravaganzas. People abroad are able to view and read about what our beautiful country portrays and possesses. 

This lead to people or visitors coming here in numbers just to get the glimpse of how it is like to be a South African. Information Communication Technology (ICT) has offered so many South Africans plenty opportunities to being able to read about the world in their respective offices, homes and at work as well. Even in their vehicles and they are able to utilize the internet where ever they go. With the whole accessibility of the net, South Africa has difficulties or barriers that contribute badly towards making our country more modern.

                                                                                                                                                                                

hi   This is as a result of not installing computer appliances in schools. Installing computers at school will help the country to be more effective in the education sector, productive and will boost the economy of the country as well. learners will be in a position to use the computers at the early stages. And it will develop them cognitively and intellectually. Learning and teaching will be changed forever. This will help teaching to be more advanced, and especially in rural areas most people envy to use nor press the computers but they are not able to do that because they have no access to computers.

T    This is a huge barrier in ICT. Another barrier is : even if computers are brought and installed at distinguish schools, the government lacks the stuff or people who will be in a position to teach the computers in the schools. So this lead to the over spending of  tax payers money in trying to create or producing skillful individuals who will be teaching the computers at schools.

"My schooling at - a journey continued"

MY SCHOOLING DAYS AT SIMTFOLILE SECONDARY SCHOOL

My schooling at Sintfolile Secondary School was a success. i managed to pass my Matric there, as i did my Matric on the year 2010. We managed to obtained approximately 98% pass rate by the year 2010. And ,that made our School to become top of Gert Sibande District. With some of our colleagues representing the school at National level. Indeed it was a journey of ,discovery and success. We  dedicated all our efforts to our studies in other to be the best achievers of the 2010 Matric's achievers. I can briefly strees that Sintfolile has quality educators who work tireleslly in ensuring that all the learners do well and most importantly pass their subjects in University standards.

As the education institution we had circumstances which jeorpadised our studies. There were teacher's strikes, service delivery strikes and ofcourse the FIFA World cup. Those were the things that had a bad effect on our academics, but as dedicated as we were, we avoided such materialistic thinbgs to distruct us on our journey towards exiting the Matric level. What we actually did to try and avoid such from disturbing us, we formed group studies and we requested to use our school as the place where we gather to do our academic staff.

Surely by the end of the year we were not disappointed about the outcome that we got, because we knew that we were fully capable of ambushing the fear of not making it out of Matric. The journey wasn't that good nor smooth. we had to leave everything behind in order to put full force and effort to our studies. Some of us decreased the number of friends they had at that particular time. We had to re-structure or day to day chores and appointments and it worked .succesfully. Now  i'm at Siyabuswa UJ for a four year Degree course in Education because of my potential that i put during my Matric days.

My Subjects were :

1. Siswati Home Langugae
2. English First Additional Language
3. Life Orientation
4. Life Sciences
5. Agricultural Sciences
6. Physical Sciences
7. Mathematics

The link below shows where my school is located: https://www.google.co.za/maps/dir/Simtfolile+Secondary+School/Siyabuswa-A,+Mpumalanga/@-26.4626054,30.7943236,235m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x1ee92c72dafd5821:0x7bcd6c6118938459!2m2!1d30.79475!2d-26.46225!1m5!1m1!1s0x1ec06a0680a156ab:0x7ceb5b6f3275d0aa!2m2!1d29.0430833!2d-25.1293584?hl=en

This is me preparing for the exams.

This is my School Simtfolile Secongary School at Fernie North near Post Office.