This year has seen a number of highly talented; motivated and skilled group of debaters making the team selection a difficult; hotly contested and rigorous process. Nevertheless, the SA Academy Team for 2013 is:
Nonhlanhla Masanabo
Jordach Sheriden Govender
Bettina Buabeng-Baidoo
Delano Ramdas
Congratulations to all participants and to those that made the team.
Two members of the South African Schools Debating Team, Josh Broomberg and Daniel Peter (with support from their team mates) are participating in an exciting on-line debating tournament called the Global On-line Debating tournament. They have completed two rounds, with the third round under way.
The tournament consists of five preliminary rounds with a break to Octo-finals. It pits them against some top quality debaters from around the world. Please follow their progress through the tournament and importantly vote for who you think has won each debate (hopefully that will be Josh and Dan).
All the action takes place here: http://www.ipidato.com/tournament/god/debates/
Motion for round three is: THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THAT ARTIST FOUND GUILTY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR ANY INDUSTRY AWARDS
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:
Your application should comprise the following:
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.
The SASDB is pleased to announce that the adjudicator selected to accompany the SA A teams to Thailand for AWSDC is Jolandi Swanepoel. Thank you to all the applicants, and good luck to Jolandi for the tournament.
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:
Covered:
The following expenses will be covered:
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following costs:
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
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:
South Africa A2:
These two teams will attend the Asian World Schools Debating Championships in August.
