Category: News

Call for Academy selectors

Dear all,

The South African Schools Debating Board invites all suitable candidates to apply for a position on the panel of selectors and trainers that will select the South African Schools Academy Debating Team 2013.

SA Academy will be held in Johannesburg from 6 – 10 July 2013, with selectors arriving the afternoon of Saturday the 6th of July and departing midday of Wednesday the 10th of July. Selectors will be housed with Gauteng-based selectors/debating union members.

SA Academy selectors are unpaid and will be responsible for their own travel arrangements and travel costs.

Selectors will be responsible for the following:

  • Selecting the SA Academy Team to attend AWSDC 2013
  • Giving extensive constructive feedback to trialists after each debate
  • Engaging in active coaching sessions with trialists (this may include giving a workshop if requested to do so)

Your application should comprise the following:

  • Your name and contact details
  • A brief CV indicating your past involvement in debating
  • A brief written motivation

Please submit applications on or before Wednesday 19th of June 2013 to sasdbinfo@gmail.com.

The panel will be announced on 20th of June 2013. No late applications will be accepted.
The SASDB reserves the right to change any elements of this procedure should it see fit.

Kind regards,
SASDB Exec

Call for adjudicator to accompany the South Africa A teams in Thailand

The two South Africa A teams are attending the Asian World Schools Debating Championships held in Bangkok, Thailand in August this year. The teams need to be accompanied by an adjudicator. The successful candidate will be expected to join the team coaches for the pre-tournament training camp, assist the coaches during training and at the tournament.

Requirements:

  • Available to travel between the 27th of July and the 8th of August.
  • A valid South African passport.
  • National level adjudication experience.

Covered:

The following expenses will be covered:

  • Flights
  • Accommodation
  • Tournament Registration

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following costs:

  • Any meals not covered by the tournament.
  • Spending money

To apply please send a scanned copy of your passport, a letter of motivation and a debating related CV to sam.dunne.sasdb@gmail.com. The closing date for applications is 6pm on Wednesday 22 May 2013. Selection will take account of both adjudicator ability and ability to contribute to team preparation for the tournament.

 

Regards,

Luke Churchyard,

Head Coach of the SA schools debating team

 

 

 

 

Announcement of South Africa A teams

Following the announcement of the national team (Josh Broomberg, Dan Peter, Rachel Grace Gardiner and Nicole Dunn) we would like to announce two additional South African A teams.

These teams are made up of the remaining eight trialists. These eight speakers were very competitive during the trails process and combine to form two teams of exceptional quality.These two teams will represent as South Africa “A” teams. The goal being to broaden the international exposure of the top level debaters in this country.

Congratulations to all the speakers! Trials was of an incredibly high quality this year and all debaters should be proud of what they have accomplished.

South Africa A1:

  • Bettina Buabeng-Baidoo
  • Saadiyah Mayet
  • Kate Dewey
  • Laurian Polkinghorne

South Africa A2:

  • Sam Musker
  • Ilan Malkin
  • Emma Buckland
  • Desmond Fairall

These two teams will attend the Asian World Schools Debating Championships in August.

Announcement of the national team

Over the last few days we have run national trials. It gives us great pleasure to announce the South African team that will attend Eurasian Schools Debating Championships in August. The team is as follows.

Josh Broomberg – Captain (Gauteng)
Dan Peter (Gauteng)
Rachel Gardiner (Eastern Cape)
Nicole Dunn (Western Cape)

The selectors are exceptionally pleased with this team and look forward to working with them closely in the future.
Sam Musker (Gauteng) was announced as the official team reserve.

The general quality of the trials squad was exceptional with some fiercely competitive debating taking place during the trials process. The other 8 speakers will be attending oversees tours as members of two South Africa A teams.

Thank you to all the selectors and trainers involved, and well done to the speakers!

Appointment of National Academy Shadow Coaches

After much discussion and consideration the shadow academy coaches have been appointed. We would like to congratulate  Bernice Badal and Ntokozo Hlongwane for their appointment. We look forward to working with you!

Thank you very much to everyone else who expressed interest and applied and we hope that you will remain involved in the South African Debating Community.