Well done, Pule

Pule Mmula on the far right

Six speakers from the UFS Debate Society all finished in the Top 25 speakers of the 2018 Pan African Universities Debate Championships in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The teams of François Brits and Tshiamo Malatji, Gugulethu Sihlali and Pule Mmula as well as Khotso Khokho and Siyanda Rixana ranked 4th, 5th and 9th respectively after the preliminary rounds.

All teams qualified for the quarterfinals, but only Brits and Malatji qualified for the Grand Final where they debated against teams from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana, the Midlands State University (MSU) in Zimbabwe and the University of Ghana. UFS finished the tournament in third place behind KNUST and MSU.

UFS previously finished first in 2008 and second in 2016.

The tournament comprised of 64 teams from institutions across Africa and took place from 5-12 December 2018. In total, South Africa had four teams representing the country. Three from the UFS and one from Wits - University of the Witwatersrand.

[Info: Lesala Khetheng]