The Rotary Club of Hibiscus Coast (Margate and Uvongo) proudly hosted the preliminary round of yet another successful annual Rotary and Daily News Team Talk competition at Suid Natal High school last Thursday.
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This year marks 39 years ago that the Rotary Club of Durban Umgeni first introduced a team speaking competition for pupils in schools in the Durban area.
The project grew, and in order to spread the competition wider, it was taken over by Rotary International District 9270 and now District 9370. The competition now involves 16 Rotary Clubs and 36 schools throughout KwaZulu-Natal.
Every year schools are invited to enter one team of three pupils from grades 10 to 12. The pupils have to select a subject of their choice, research the subject and present it as a team. Each team must present a problem and collectively suggest a solution to that problem and ideally do this within 12 minutes.
Local schools
Eight teams from seven schools took part in the preliminary round. The schools that took part included; Marburg Secondary A and B team, Port Shepstone Secondary, Port Shepstone High, Suid-Natal High, Creston College, Southcity Christian College and Mcushwa High school.
This year Suid-Natal High school were crowned as the winners. Southcity Christian College had previously won the competition three years in a row.
Coming out tops in the talk for their school were Michelle Kretzschmar, Ankia Stander and Rochelle Potgieter. Their winning topic was ‘Cauldron of online communication’.
The runners-up were from Port Shepstone High school with team members Fathima Docrat, Lethokuhle Khumalo and Saneliswe Mbhele. Their topic was ‘There’s no such thing as normal’.
Best Speaker was Ankia stander from Suid-Natal High school. Cathy de Boer (vocational director of the Rotary Club of Hibiscus Coast), congratulated all the speakers and noted that success is not in winning but in taking part and learning. “We would like to thank all our sponsors, Rotary Club members, parents and schools for taking part in the competition. This year’s competition was extremely close. We were very proud and honoured to see a huge improvement in Mcushwa High school,” said Ms de Boer.
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