MOSSEL BAY NEWS - This year marked the tenth that the Bartolomeu Dias Museum has organised and hosted the speech competition for high school learners studying English as a first additional language.
The event, which also commemorates International Museum Day, being 18 May, was hosted this year on 17 May.
This first leg of the competition is used to select the best five speakers from Mossel Bay schools to speak at the gala speech evening in September. This year it will be hosted by the CP Nel Museum in Oudtshoorn.
The CP Nel, George and Dias museums each organise their own individual speech evenings and select their finalists. All of these finalists compete against one another in September to determine who the best speaker of the Southern Cape and Karoo will be.
The schools that participated this year were Point, Sao Bras, Indwe and Hillcrest high schools.
The schools that participated this year were Point, Sao Bras, Indwe and Hillcrest high schools.
The winners were:
- First place: Maleboheng Maphakiza - Sao Bras High School
- Second place: Yanga Butani - Hillcrest Secondary School
- Third place: Soyama Vellem - Indwe High School
- The two runner-up speakers who also qualify for the gala event are (fourth) Amor Hall from Point High and (fifth) Awanda Maxongo from Sao Bras.
"We are very grateful to our sponsors, Bardins Jewellery, for the engraving of trophies and Des Jooste for the flower arrangements," says Barry Jooste of the Dias Museum, who organises the local speech evening.
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