Popular annual speech contest at museum

MOSSEL BAY NEWS - This year will be the 11th that the Bartolomeu Dias Museum in Mossel Bay is organising and hosting the annual speech contest for Grade 10 and 11 learners taking English as a first additional language.

This event celebrates International Museum Day, which is on 18 May.

This event is used to select the best five speakers from Mossel Bay, Albertinia, Great Brak and Riversdale high schools to represent the area at the Gala Speech Contest in September.

This year it will take place at the George Museum. This year four museums are working together to organise these speech contests. They are: CP Nel, George, Bartolomeu Dias and Beaufort West museums. Each one will organise its own individual speech contest and select the finalists.

All of these finalists will then speak at the gala contest to decide who the best speaker of the Southern Cape and Karoo will be.

The invited schools for this year are:
Sao Bras, Indwe, Hillcrest, Albertinia, Langenhoven Gymnasium, Oakdale, Curro Mossel Bay and Gerrit du Plessis.

The Mossel Bay adjudicators this year are: Claire du Plessis, Mr V Ngqawuza and Cornelle Carstens.

The Dias museum extends a "huge thank you" also to the sponsors:
Mrs Des Jooste (flower arrangements) and the Friends of the Dias Museum (trophies, engraving and refreshments).

"The Dias Museum Speech Contest will take place at the museum’s Granary building on 15 May at 18:00 and we would love everyone that can, to attend," a museum spokesperson said.

"We all know how daunting it is to deliver a speech in front of people, so please come and support our learners."

Last year's speakers and adjudicators at the Dias Museum.