Results: Debate and public speaking

Congratulations to the debate and public speakers that represented HTS at Henties Cilliers High School for the Goldfields Language Bonanza..

We are extremely proud of your achievements

Flashback Friday: Invited to speak at championship

Donderdag 29 September 2017

The Welkom Technical High School's debating team had been invited to attend the second edition of the Cub Grill Schools Debating Championship, hosted by the debate union of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. The event was held from Friday (22/09) to Sunday (24/09) and saw speakers from different regions in and around Gauteng and the Free State. This championship served as training for the team before the provincial competition. From the left are Shaun Mmutsi, Pule Mmula, Lesala Khetheng, Tshepiso Matlolane and Thato Parnell.

[Photo: André van Dyk]

PAN African university debating championships (PAUDC)

Four students from the Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein campus qualified for two slots to attend and compete at the PAN AFRICAN UNIVERSITY DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, which were held at Strathmore University, Nairobi Kenya.🇰🇪 Through merit and dedication, the institution selected these four students to debate at this tournament. PAN African university debating championships (PAUDC) is one of the most prestigious and largest tournaments in Africa, with over 62 teams, 35 universities and 10 countries. These countries include; Kenya, Rwanda,Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Togo, Botswana. One of our teams, Team CUT A consisting of two speakers, Kerapetsi Booi(left side) and Alex Manise(Middle right) broke to out-rounds, Quarter finals, and came 3rd in that round. Unfortunately, their journey at PANS ended there. Despite all the hiccups that existed through the arrangements of PANS, these individuals worked very hard to ensure that practices take place to better equip themselves

PAN Africanism was the main theme of this tournament. A theme to embrace our Africanism and form unity with our neighbouring countries.

The 2 speakers, Kerapetsi and Alex also competed for Public Speaking, and did exceptionally well. All of these speakers are novice speakers, a debate term we use to describe “newly developed” university debaters. PAUDC was a great experience and exposure for us. Besides all the formalities of debating and public speaking, we got a chance to experience a lot about Kenya🇰🇪 From the Food they eat, right through to their culture and history. Thank you very much to our institution for allowing us to reach our dreams and fly the CUT and South African flag high. Thank you to each and every speaker who took their time to learn and attend this tournament. It has not been an easy year, but we all made it through.

Mostly, deepest gratitude to our Heavenly Father for keeping us safe and making this trip possible.

Togo 🇹🇬 and Vietnam 🇻🇳 here we come in 2023!

[Thank you, Alex, for the news and congratulations with this excellent achievement.]

Viva, debating

High five for the debating team!

 

HTS was the best team for the language festival

Best debating team - they won all rounds with Boitshepo Lebesa as third best speaker, Lihle Xaba second best and Sam Lukhanyo as the best speaker for the language bonanza.

Debate results

The boys won their first round and our team also got best speaker award. Congratulations to Shaun and the team. 

Congratulations to our Debating Team!

This is the HTS Debating team with Shaun Mmutsi as the coach and Caryn Petersen as the coordinator, at their end term tournament. They won 2 of the 3 debates and Nhlanhla Radebe was the team's best speaker ... From the back (left): Bulelani Radebe, Shaun as the coach, Caryn as the coordinator and Lesedi Motsoane. From the left front: Juhan Van Heerden, and Nhlanhla Radebe. The tournament was held on the 21st May 2022 at Henties Cilliers High School in Virginia. 

Well done to our debating team who have worked so hard to prepare for many debates. We are proud of you!

Mr Lesala Arnold Khetheng

Lesala Khetheng

"You can walk a horse to river, but you cannot force it to drink the water," has always been his actions. He would tell you everything you need to know that is wrong and wright, but it's all up to you whether you want to listen to him and act upon it or not. Mr Lesala is a very busy man, but you would never find him missing anything that he needed to do. Do you wonder why? Because he knew how to spend his time. He lives up to " If you want to be more productive, you need to become the master of your minutes". A person who claims they know Mr Lesala would know how much he loved his teams! All of them even!

Starting from the very first time when he was still a learner at THS WELKOM HTS. He was a consistent and a hard working learner. One of the best the school has ever had! Not only did he grow to become the best in everything he did, but also did he become one of the best coaches at school. He lifts as he rises and he makes sure that you rise whether you want to or not ... Honour, Courageous and Dignity are his full names! He is one of a kind. Mr Lesala took my school to higher levels. He took my peers including me to places we never thought we'll reach! High ! Very High places I say! I'm talking about my debating coach here. 

Alex Manise

I never understood why he would train us for 10-15 minutes during a 1 hour 30 minutes sports period. He would just say "Sir Alex, you guys must learn how to conduct a training yourselves! Every time when you enter the classroom, I must find you guys discussing relevant status quo related issues. Never waste previous time on asking each other how you are doing or whatsoever, if you want to socialise, do it during breaks"... The same would apply to basketball players. That taught me to manage my time because no one else can do that for you ... In short, thank you for all the memories spent. Thank you for all the lessons and all the hustles you went through to get us to tournaments!

All the best with your future endeavours. May the Holy God be with you and your family. Marriage is a big step, but trusting in God can make it a walk in the park.

️May God bless you and your new wife.

[Alex Manise]

The Youth Day Derby 2020!

Welcome to the first edition of the Youth Day Derby 2020!

The Youth Day Derby is run by the South African Schools Debating Board (SASDB). The SASDB is a non-profit organisation that provides utmost training and competitions for debaters in the country from District, Inter Provincial, Provincial and National standards. International competitions as well!

This is the first time that the SA Debating board will be hosting such a competition. It is a British Parliament debate tournament in honour of Youth Day 2020! We will be debating in pairs of two (2) speakers in a team instead of the normal three (3) speakers in a team. It is an amazing opportunity for young speakers to learn and explore debating with speakers from different provinces at National level. Also a great opportunity for them to learn about the virtual hosting of a tournament. If you're interested in pursuing BA(LAW)/LLB after matrix, then this is your chance to learn now!

#SA Debating # Youth Day Derby 2020

[Alex Manise]

The online tournament ...

The Clash Of The Debaters (Online) tournament took place on the 1st - 4th of May 2020.

The tournament had more than 120 participants and more than 24 teams from all over the nation including international teams from Bermuda and Zimbabwe!! The online tournament was a success, leaving most inexperienced debaters with some knowledge and experience of what a debate tournament is.

We had our JCC Mayor, Miss Franchesca May as the Best adjudicator for 2020. She ranked 1st in the Top 10 adjudicators, with one of our HTS/Unitas teams breaking to Quarter finals. 

We thank all speakers who participated in this tournament, adjudicators and organising committee members and mostly our SA coaches who gave us light on what to do and what not to do.

Lastly, a big thanks to Alex Manise as the Chairperson and Founder of The Clash Of The Debaters Tournament

Clash of the debaters (COTD) junior tournament

Clash of the debaters (COTD) junior tournament was established on the 24th of September 2019. Its mandate is to serve and develop speakers at grassroots level (hence it is called a junior tournament). 

The COTD Board consists of 3 people. Alex Manise (Chaiperson), Caryn Petersen (Deputy) both are from Welkom Free State and Elethu Della ( National coordinator) from Queenstown Eastern Cape province. 

As a board we decided to host COTD 2020 online due to the pandemic that occurred. Tournament started today and will end on Monday(finals). More than 24 teams have been registered. With more than 22 international speakers! Lastly, we have three of SA Coaches taking part as (Chief adjudicator, deputy chief adjudicator and Co- chief adjudicator) in our tournament. 

In conclusion more than 120 people are partaking in the tournament.

#COTDO(online)

#Let Us Clash

Click HERE for more information.

February ... be there or be told ...

February, the month of love. Often people share love in this month, but I consider February as a month of love and fellowship. You can't have love without fellowship. These are the two essential things that must exist in our lives. We can't have a month of love without celebrating for it. Therefore, I have decided to host an event where we will not only share love, but we will also fellowship. It is time for us as HTS boys to care for one another and this event will bring us care and fellowship within ourselves. Catch me as your organizer and the rest of the organising committee there.

Date: 28 February

Time: 15h00-18h00

 #Be There Or Be Told

Alex is nie op sy mond geval nie ...

Franchesca May van St Dominic en Alex - hulle
twee was in dieselfde debatspan in Europa en albei
is ook deel van Matjhabeng JCC 2019/2020 se
uitvoerende bestuur.

Alex Manise en al die ander debatteerders wat in Europa en in Asië aan die internasionale toernooie deelgeneem het, is na die SA-debatkompetisie se prysuitdeling by die Universiteit van Pretoria genooi.

Hier het hulle hul sertifikate en medaljes  vir hulle internasionale deelname vir 2019 ontvang. Hou gerus hierdie twee dop ... as junior burgemeester en - onderburgemeester kan dié twee al pratende die raad oortuig om die spreekwoordelike ekstra myl met 'n glimlag te loop. Mag 2020 vir julle 'n blomjaar wees. Viva JCC!

Debate: Gold Rush

Khahliso Mokhouane, Musa Memela, 

Simbongile Bani, and Alex Manise (Coach)

"Gold Rush took place on the 11th - 13th Oct 2019. I had spent my entire weekend at this tournament together with my kids who made me proud ...

HTS Angola broke straight to finals with 3 wins and 1 lose ... And HTS Angola won the Gold Rush 5th edition 2019. This team consisted of Simbongile Bani, Khahliso Mokhouane and Musa Memela.

In the TOP 10 SPEAKERS FOR THE TOURNAMENT Khahliso Mokhouane was 7th. Simbongile Bani was 2nd and Musa Memela was 1st ... With that being said, HTS Welkom THS was the first junior team to take the trophy home. I am the proudest captain!" Greeky Manise.

Advice for the debating team ...

SA-debatsvoorbereiding in Sandton

Lede van die debatspan is van gister af in Sandton om hulle voor te berei vir hulle oorsese deelname. Hier is Alex saam met 6 van die 15 spanlede wat aan die Heart Of Europe Debating Championships in die Tsjeggiese Republiek gaan deelneem.

SA debating team

The SA debating team are invited to the Heart Of Europe Debating Championships which will be held at the Czech republic. There are 17 in the South African team.  They are departing on the 10th of July and will be back on the 17th July 2019. Good luck to Alex Manise who is part of this very elite team. We are very proud of you!

'n Droom wat waar geword het ...

Alex Manise en Lesala Khetheng

Alex Manise het sy 3 weke Junie-vakansie kreatief gebruik om op elke denkbare manier geld te  genereer vir sy oorsese deelname. Teen die tyd dat die skool gesluit het vir die tweede kwartaal was hy maar op die halfpadmerk van sy vereiste R24 000. Modeparades, gebak, verkope en baie ander dinge het skielik deel van sy woordeskat geword en danksy sy familie en sy kerkvriende se onvermoeide hulp gedurende dié vakansie, kon hy sy teiken bereik.

En nou lê al die voorbereiding voor. Hulle gaan Saterdag, 6 Julie, na Johannesburg om voor te berei en te oefen voordat hulle eerskomende Woensdag om 19:10 vertrek.

Sy mentor en afrigter van sy graad 8-jaar af is Lesala Khetheng. 'n Mentor wat so trots kan wees op sy leerders die afgelope 6 jaar. Hulle presteer die wêreld vol.

Help make a dream come true ...