Choirs compete at national championships

RANDBURG – Provincial choir champions vie for top national prize

June 26, 2018

Sonwabile Antonie 1 minute read

Actonville Special School from the Gauteng Province.

Randburg will be in the spotlight this week as the country’s school choirs compete for top honours.

This is because the Department of Basic Education and the Motsepe Foundation are hosting the ABC Motsepe South Africa School Choir Eisteddfod (SASCE) National Championships.

Fairview Primary School from Mpumalanga.

The partnership between the two entities sees choirs showcasing their talent and has become one of the department’s most significant cultural events on the annual school calendar.

This year, the competition centres around the centenary years of two great stalwarts of the apartheid movement and the theme is Celebrating the Centenary of Nelson Mandela and Albertina Sisulu through music.

Mayekiso Primary School from the Eastern Cape.

Celebrating 18 years, the Eisteddfod is a strategic programme in the department’s quest to promote unity in diversity, national reconciliation, social cohesion and a national identity among young South Africans of school-going age.

In a press statement, Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga said music, like all other forms of cultural expression, is an important weapon of education.

“So much is invested in this exercise precisely because it advances the holistic development of the young, preparing them for constructive lives fulfilling to themselves, their country and their people,” she said.