Africon sponsor Maths competition

Giving: Africon handed over a cheque for R40 000 in sponsorship of the UCT Mathematics Competition. (From left) Assoc Prof Charles Hellaby, Prof John Webb, Professor Kathy Driver, and Africon's Albert Geldenhuys and Kamaar Frydie.

Africon, corporate sponsors of the UCT Mathematics Competition, handed over a cheque for R40 000 to UCT at a function on 2 April.

The competition, which takes place at UCT on 29 April, is an annual event for high schools in the Western Cape. About 400 schools participate, with nearly 200 teachers assisting in some 50 venues across the campus.

The event is also sponsored by Casio and Oxford University Press, who donated calculator and book prizes respectively.