By Staff Reporter Sunday, 21 July marked the 62nd Chapel Anniversary Service. The Kingswood community was joined by friends, OKs and Reunion groups of 1973, 74 and 75 to honour those Kingswoodians that died in the World Wars, in whose memory the chapel was built. It is always an emotional but beautiful service starting with the The Last Post and the reveille as the school flag is lowered, it must be noted that the reason the 1st chapel pew is left open is an ode to the lost descendants of the Kingswoodians who lost their lives.
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By Staff Reporter Friday, 19 July, was a busy day for Kingswood College, with Mandela Day activities in the senior school. “We actually call it our termly ‘Make a Difference Day’,” the college says in a statement. The entire senior school and staff head out to various projects from playing music to the elderly, singing to children at Lebone Centre, painting dorms in the orphanages and creches, soup kitchens with some of the 1st team rugby payers, kitting beanies, cleaning up litter, doing gardens at the local hospitals and APD Clinic, cricket, hockey and soccer clinics with local schools, walking…
By Staff Reporter This past weekend, the St Andrew’s Prep Rugby Club played their final rugby fixtures of the 2024 season against Woodridge. It was a fitting way to close out our season, with all seven of our rugby teams involved in the fixture, said a statement from the school. Fairlawn was abuzz with nearly 180 rugby boys and coaches all contributing to an exciting day of rugby. The matches were played in fantastic spirit, with the Prep boys getting off to a cracking start. “Our U9A team overcame a spirited Woodridge team to finish the season with an unbeaten…
By Staff Reporter St Andrew’s College hosted Dale College in an exciting rugby encounter at Lower Field in Makhanda recently. Both teams displayed attractive rugby throughout the match, making for a thrilling contest. The 1st team match began with St Andrew’s showing early aggression and attacking from deep within their own territory. Despite their strong start, College initially struggled to convert their opportunities into points. Dale College seized the opportunity to open the scoring with a penalty kick, taking an early lead. However, College rallied in the latter part of the first half, asserting control and scoring two tries. The…
By Staff Reporter Kingswood College first XV ended off its season in spectacular fashion on Saturday with a convincing win over Graeme College on Graeme’s Somerset Field. Kingswood dominated the early exchanges with their forwards excelling in the scrum and mauls to open up a commanding 17-0 lead playing into the wind. Graeme responded with a try before half time to enter the break at 17-7. The second half commenced with Graeme converting a penalty to reduce the gap to 17-10. However, Kingswood made full use of the wind advantage, combined with the world class kicking performance from Praise Matsila,…
By Chris Totobela Makhanda’s young football sensation Olwethu “Ma Oza” Songelwa is currently training with DSTV Premier League club Cape Town City’s reserve side, hoping to secure a professional contract. The DSTV Premiership is South Africa’s elite professional football league. Songelwa left for Cape Town recently to express his skills at City in the hope of playing professional football and put his hometown on the map once again. After being voted the best player of the Engen U18 tournament in Gqeberha recently, Songelwa was spotted by one of many scouts present at the tournament. He was invited for trials at…
By Luvuyo Mjekula and Asiphesona Wonqwelo Makana Citizens Front (MCF) members will have to wait until further notice to learn the fate of their organisation’s leaders after a Makhanda High Court judge reserved judgment in an application to order the Makana Municipality to act on an Electoral Court judgment. On 13 May 2024, the Electoral Court ordered that erstwhile MCF Proportional Representation (PR) councillors Lungile Mxube, Philip Machanick, Kungeka Mashiane, Jonathan Walton and Jane Bradshaw, who were kicked out by a rival faction in the organisation, be reinstated and the five councillors who replaced them – Lungisa Sixaba, Thandisizwe Matebese,…
By Singisa Mdungwana These were scenes at the second annual Makhanda Chess Championship at the Kingswood High Performance Centre yesterday. The chess tournament, run by the Sewelo Maths and Chess Community Academy in association with Kingswood College, kicked off the first round at 10am yesterday and continued until late. Local schools including Kingswood College, Nombulelo Secondary, Ntsika Secondary, Victoria Girls High, CM Vellem Primary, Kutliso Daniels Secondary, NV Cewu Primary, TEM Mrwetyana High, Andrew Moyake School of Excellence and a few others, took part in the tournament. Selected winners will represent Makhanda at Graaff Reinet on 3 August. Follow Grocott’s…
By Luvuyo Mjekula Children of Boy Boy Mginywa Pre-School in Xolani Location got the privilege of learning about the father of their nation, Nelson Mandela, on Thursday. Celebrating Mandela Day with the children aged between two and five years, Nelson Mandela Museum council member Faith Ngandi, narrated to the children a story on the life and times of Madiba. Ngandi had been invited to the preschool by staff of Amazwi Literature Museum, to be part of the Mandela Day celebrations. She took the children through the early life of Madiba, up to the last days of the world renowned icon,…
By Luvuyo Mjekula A Makhanda men’s organisation’s contributed to Mandela Day in a special way this week, by ensuring the dignity of the girl child is maintained and respected. As the world marked International Mandela Day this week, the Singamadoda Men Empowerment Spaces, donated 87 packs of sanitary towels to girls at DD Siwisa Primary School on Wednesday. The gesture was more than just about celebrating Mandela Day. “The aim was to maintain the dignity of the girl child,” said founder of the organisation, Simo Mawawa Ndyoko. He said the visit to the school was not only about donating much…