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The MICM is a joint collaboration between the late, philanthropist and Cape Gate chairman Mendel Kaplan and Robert Brooks (CEO of MIAGI – Music is a Great Investment).  In 2008, Mendel Kaplan, agreed to fund the construction of a music centre on the premises of the Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto through his foundation, the Kaplan Kuschlick Foundation. The Cape Gate MIAGI Centre for Music (CMCM) building, is the first of its kind in any South African township was inaugurated in May 2011. Full operations started at the beginning of 2012. 

The benefits, to society and to the individual, of access to music education and training are well documented. Studies have demonstrated that when music education is made available, there are tangible results in terms of lower crime rates, less drug abuse and in general far better academic and social performance among schoolchildren. Music can trigger beneficial psycho-physic mechanisms that cannot be induced by any other activity as effectively. 

The Morris Isaacson Centre of Music (MICM) is located on one of one the most historically important schools in South Africa, known as Morris Isaacson Secondary School. The high school is known for its historical significance in connection with the beginning of the June 16th Soweto uprising. Since 2009, MICM has been providing music education to the children of Soweto. We do this through our one on one individual lessons, theory, choir and ensemble classes. More than 270 children are currently benefiting from our early childhood development programme. In addition, we have managed to place 10% of our learners at specialist schools e.g. National School of Arts and in 2020, two of our learners have won scholarships to study music in the UK through our Arco partnership with the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Music education and early childhood development.

00278 Sigasa St, Jabavu, Soweto, 1809, South Africa