'Don't follow losers' - Ramaphosa to school kids
11 January 2017
Bloemfontein – Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has advised learners starting the 2017 school year to emulate the behaviour of their clever counterparts.
"If you really want to succeed, you must associate yourself with good friends," Ramaphosa said at the Phehellang Secondary School on Wednesday.
He congratulated the school's matric class of 2016 and dished out some advice for the current crop of learners on how to have a successful academic year.
Ramaphosa's Shanduka Trust had partnered with the Department of Basic Education to assist the school, which has had a dismal pass rate in recent years. Its luck turned in 2015, when they achieved a 100% pass rate and repeated that performance in 2016.