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 Quality and Equality in Education 

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About Welisa Academy
Welisa Academy is an initiative of Welisa Projects, a not-for-profit company, whose raison d'être is to facilitate access to quality learning for under-resourced communities. The Academy uses innovative, disruptive and subversive methods - which includes exploring philosophies, theories and methods of learning, both ancient and current, such as technology,  to ensure learning that emancipates the individual and leads to independent thinking and confident pursuit of life. We provide additional support to students in both mainstream schools, a second shot at education to those who have fallen off the system. We also promote love for reading. Our language laboratory ensures the development of that all-important confidence and progress enabler, language skills.
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Our Vision ​
Generations of people from underresourced backgrounds who are confident, visionary, courageous and equipped to step into the world, live their purpose and make a lasting impact
Our Vision
Our Mission
To cultivate  visionaries who are determined to seek out and live their purpose while positively impacting the world and pushing back against inequality and injustice wherever these two impostors show their ugly heads
Our Mission

Services

Dumisani P. Mchunu Memorial Library and Language Laboratory

The Dumisani P Mchunu Memorial Library is in memory of the late brother of one of the founders of the Academy; a former uMkhonto we Sizwe soldier (nom de guerre, Thembinkosi Zondi) and later a qualified teacher. The library incorporate a language laboratory. The library and language laboratory are open to both in-and-out-of-school people of all ages who are interested in expanding their knowledge horizons and improving their language skills and even learning new languages.

Impaq Learning Centre

We are a registered Impaq Learning Centre. We provide both tutoring and invigilation services to Impaq students of all grades. As a rural based centre, we are one of very few online and homeschooling support centres that can provide IsiZulu Home Language and IsiZulu First Additional Language tutor support, invigilation and orals assessment.

Amended Senior Certificate (ASC) Exams and National Senior Certificate Grades Improvement

We assist with Amended Senior Certificate (ASC) registration process and provide support through master classes and other interventions to students who are studying to write their Amended Senior Certificate (ASC) exams and those who looking to improve their National Senior Certificate (NSC) grades. We also provide general master classes on a range of subjects from philosophy, politics, geo-politics, history, economics, science, business and so forth.

Critical Thinking and Inquiry

We also host critical thinking workshops and seminars as well as residency programmes in collaboration with partners from various fields of knowledge. These sessions are designed to cultivate a world-view perspective which we believe enhances and ensure a clearer understanding of the person's immediate environment. We value freedom of thought and expression. We are for thinking globally and acting locally as well as thinking locally and acting globally depending on the circumstances, challenges and tasks the individual is facing

Team

Bhekamachunu H. Zwelethu Mchunu (Bheki)

Co-founder and Executive Director

Bheki Mchunu has vast experience across various fields which include higher education, development fund management, rural development and heritage and history. He holds BA (Anthropology, English and History), BA Honours in History, conferred cum laude, and a MA degree in Economic History. He is a teacher by profession, with a Higher Diploma in Education specialising in English and History and a Post Graduate Diploma in Adult Basic Education. An avid reader and a skilled writer, he has contributed opinion pieces in various publications and has an eye for copywriting and copy editing A consummate strategist and lateral thinker - he brings to the organisation a rich skillset from strategic planning to results-based management, organisational development and leadership

Witty Nonhlanhla Nyide-Mchunu

Co-founder and Director - Programmes

Witty Nyide-Mchunu previously taught at Nelson Mandela University's Visual Arts Department and has worked in various community-based and formal art education programs, including the UNISA Art Gallery and UKZN's Creative Arts Education. Her current research project locates how community members situated in Nkwezela might externalise affective narratives of the contested nature of their Ingonyama Trust-administered spaces through material possessions. She adopts participatory approaches to consider how those objects may index agency from 1913 to the present and locate alternative pockets of histories using archival research. Nyide-Mchunu holds an MA in Art History (with distinction) from UKZN. Her thesis was entitled Reflections on Self-realisation in Art-based Community Development: Exploring the Impact of Caversham Centre and its Outreach Programs from 2008 to 2010. She currently lectures in the Fine Art and Jewellery Design Department at the Durban University of Technology.

Contact

  • 121 Westville Junction
  • 7 Westville Road, Durban, South Africa