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<strong>Hola</strong> <strong>MaHigh</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong><br />
Volume 7, issue 6,<br />
<strong>June</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
IT IS<br />
ILLEGAL<br />
FOR ANYONE<br />
UNDER THE<br />
AGE OF 18<br />
YEARS TO<br />
PURCHASE,<br />
POSSESS<br />
AND CONSUME<br />
ALCOHOL<br />
NEGATIVE<br />
EFFECTS<br />
OF ALCOHOL<br />
ABUSE ON<br />
LEARNERS<br />
ALCOHOL ABUSE<br />
HAS NO RIGHTFUL<br />
PLACE ANYWHERE<br />
IN SOCIETY,<br />
ESPECIALLY IN SCHOOL<br />
ENVIRONMENTS<br />
WHERE LEARNERS<br />
SPEND MOST OF THEIR LIVES.<br />
GAUTENG LIQUOR LICENSING OFFICE
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF<br />
ALCOHOL ABUSE ON LEARNERS<br />
ALCOHOL ABUSE HAS NO RIGHTFUL PLACE ANYWHERE IN SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY<br />
IN SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS WHERE LEARNERS SPEND MOST OF THEIR LIVES.<br />
CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL ABUSE<br />
HIGH-RISK SEX<br />
Alcohol abuse in teenagers results in high-risk sex, unprotected sex and sex with multiple partners.<br />
SEXUAL ASSAULT<br />
Sexual assault including rape occurs most commonly among women due to high consumption of<br />
alcohol.<br />
ABUSE<br />
Harmful use of alcohol is a major contributor to violence both at schools and in the communities.<br />
SUICIDE<br />
Alcohol use interacts with conditions such as depression and stress which contributes to suicide which<br />
is the third leading cause of death among people between the ages of 14 and 25.<br />
IT IS ILLEGAL FOR ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS TO PURCHASE, POSSESS AND<br />
CONSUME ALCOHOL.<br />
Remember, you DO NOT NEED drugs or alcohol… it’s OK NOT to drink!<br />
For any Liquor related issues please contact:<br />
Matlotlo House<br />
94 Main Street<br />
Johannesburg<br />
Tel: 011 355 8000
Contents<br />
06 Editors letter<br />
07 Poem<br />
08 We need writers<br />
10 Contributors<br />
11 Holler at us<br />
12 Month of <strong>June</strong><br />
16 Youth Entrepreneur<br />
18 Ford and Booth making an impact<br />
22 Masiziba at University
Contents<br />
25 Quotes<br />
26 Trump-Kim summit<br />
32 Chef on the Blue Train<br />
34 World Cup <strong>2018</strong><br />
38 Sunbake making an impact<br />
40 Science: NIHSS<br />
42 World Cup: the trophy<br />
44 A wonderful rban myth<br />
46 Next issue
Editor’s Letter<br />
<strong>June</strong> is here - and it is winter! <strong>June</strong> is also Youth Month and<br />
this time we try to unravel the mysteries of being an entrepreneur.<br />
This is not to discourage anyone, rather to put it<br />
into perspective. It is not so easy. It requires dedication and<br />
very hard work. But you can succeed.<br />
We just had to write about the world cup. No way out of it.<br />
But of course we try to look at it differently. The trophy! and<br />
the origins of the entire thing.<br />
International just had to be Trump-Kim summit. There are a<br />
lot of things going on there.<br />
Masiziba is continuing her<br />
series on university. It is really<br />
fascinating to see all these<br />
things. Hopefully we all learn<br />
and get inspiration from her.<br />
Of course we are looking at<br />
a few jobs. What about as a<br />
chef on the Blue Train? Just<br />
about where I would hand in<br />
the pen and sign up.<br />
... and an urban myth: Alligators<br />
in New York sewers.<br />
GOOD READ<br />
Sybil
Time for poems:<br />
<strong>School</strong> is out. I am out of school.<br />
The days so long and flying and so short<br />
and always - reminds me<br />
... grandmother’s soup.<br />
Visiting<br />
The coal stove and the cold bed<br />
and so cosy and warm and cold<br />
Visiting<br />
The day so warm<br />
and yet so cold<br />
Loving to be there.<br />
Visiting<br />
Sybil
We need writers!<br />
Our writers are growing up and getting older<br />
That is og course good. BUT.... it means they are leaving us<br />
Therefore: would you like towrite for us?<br />
What is required?<br />
That is easy<br />
You have to be in grade 10-12<br />
Impeccable in your preferred language-and<br />
that might not be English. We<br />
try to be more than just English<br />
Passionate about your topic of choice -<br />
no dull articles here<br />
Do you get anything out of it?<br />
Well, not money, sorrry. BUT<br />
if we publish your articles you will<br />
have:<br />
Your bio in a commercial magazine<br />
A photo of yourself<br />
You can put it all on your CV<br />
you can use us as a reference<br />
... and it goes in your portfolio
Is it important?<br />
YES it is.<br />
Look what Rofhiwa said:<br />
My name is Rofhiwa and I love to write.<br />
I think I am rather decent writer too.<br />
I took my talent and have used it to<br />
express my thoughts on international<br />
dealings of the world which have been<br />
published in <strong>Hola</strong> <strong>MaHigh</strong>-<strong>School</strong>. It<br />
has paid off, not only is my work printed<br />
for young people in the country<br />
to read, but it also contributed to me<br />
gettng a bursary from CNBC-Africa to<br />
do my post-graduate studies. Would<br />
be a lot harder to get by if I didn’t have<br />
platform like <strong>Hola</strong> <strong>MaHigh</strong>-<strong>School</strong>.<br />
What to do?<br />
Email me on ivan@romele.<br />
co.za:<br />
name<br />
school<br />
Cell number<br />
E-mail address<br />
... and we will talk!
Meet our contributors<br />
I am Masiziba Hadebe. I study a BSc in Agricultural<br />
Economics at the University of the Free State. I am<br />
originally from a small rural town in Mpumalanga,<br />
Balfour. My hardworking trait proves that anyone,<br />
regardless of the background, can make it. I love<br />
plants and animals. During leisure, I read anything<br />
readable and interesting. Writing is and will always<br />
be my passion, I would starve food just to write!<br />
Pinky Rapoo is a creative writer by nature and<br />
not yet by profession.She lives in Vosloorus and is<br />
currently in grade 12 at Vosloorus Comprehensive<br />
Secondary<strong>School</strong>. Listening to music is her hobby,writing<br />
is her passion. Her motto is “Think twice<br />
before speaking,think three times before acting and<br />
think thoroughly before writing”.<br />
My name is Marcia Ramodike, a 20 year old young<br />
lady from Limpopo at Lenyenye. I am doing my<br />
second year law degree at the University of the Free<br />
State and I am also an author of a book entitled from<br />
an empty pride to a full price which is touch based on<br />
issues that affect black families such as black tax. I<br />
am very passionate about writing. It is actually my<br />
first love. I love chilling indoors while reading books<br />
and novels; I am a fun, loving person who always<br />
smiles and care about other people. My favourite<br />
quote is “when the caterpillar thought it was the end<br />
of the world it turned into a butterfly “.
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Month of <strong>June</strong>: so many thin<br />
I LOVE America! did you know?......<br />
Seersucker Thursday (<strong>June</strong> 7) is an annual tradition in the<br />
United States Congress in which<br />
Senators wear clothing made of<br />
seersucker on National Seersucker<br />
Day. This light, cotton-based material<br />
is traditional in the Southern<br />
United States.<br />
The tradition was started by Republican Senator Trent Lott<br />
of Mississippi in 1996 who wanted to “bring a little Southern<br />
charm to the Capitol” to<br />
remind the Senate of how Senators<br />
dressed before the advent<br />
of air conditioning in the 1950s.<br />
Seersucker weave was introduced<br />
to the American south, probably through British<br />
colonial trade, sometime in the second half of the 19th<br />
century. The cotton weave, which originated in western<br />
India, became a signature look of the United States in the<br />
early 20th<br />
century because<br />
its light<br />
weight and<br />
pre-rumpled<br />
surface<br />
made it ideal<br />
for the intense<br />
humidity<br />
of summer.
gs! All from Wiki - of course!<br />
We Tripantu is the Mapuche New Year fest that takes<br />
place on the <strong>June</strong> solstice which in the Southern Hemisphere<br />
is the Winter solstice.<br />
We Tripantu (Mapudungun<br />
tr: new sunrise) is the<br />
conclusion of the Mapuche<br />
New Year that takes place<br />
between <strong>June</strong> 21 and <strong>June</strong><br />
24 in the Gregorian calendar.<br />
It is the Mapuche’s equivalent<br />
to the Inti Raymi. The Pachamama (Quechua tr:<br />
Mother Earth), Nuke Mapu (uke’ Mapu) begins to bloom<br />
fertilized by Sol, from the Andean heights to the southern<br />
tip.<br />
Antü (mapuche), Inti (Aymara), or<br />
Rapa (rapanui) Sol, the sun starts to<br />
come back to earth, after the longest<br />
night of the year; it’s winter<br />
Solstice. Everything starts to bloom<br />
again
Voted in the top 10 of the most strikingly architecturally<br />
beautiful museums in the world, Freedom Park is<br />
breathtakingly spectacular. A vantage point that offers<br />
visitors a spectacular panoramic view of our city and<br />
beyond, visitors are guaranteed to stand in awe at the<br />
contrasting view, offering the opposites of our world.<br />
Lauded for its effortless beauty,<br />
Freedom Park is the perfect hidden venue for all events, as<br />
people escape the bustle of the city and enjoy the serenity<br />
and peace of the surrounding nature. Amidst the<br />
enchanting architecture, Freedom Park helps create<br />
unforgettable memories.<br />
Why not experience it for yourself!<br />
www.freedompark.co.za | call: +27 12 336 4000
What is Freedom Park?<br />
This is all from their website:<br />
Freedom Park celebrates South Africa’s heritage. It is a centre of knowledge<br />
aimed at deepening the understanding of the nation. It strives to accommodate<br />
all of the country’s experiences and symbols to tell one coherent story.<br />
Freedom Park is a national and international site that celebrates the ideals of<br />
liberty, diversity and human rights.<br />
Freedom Park is a cultural institution housing a museum and a memorial<br />
dedicated to chronicling and honouring the many who contributed to South<br />
Africa’s liberation. The museum aims to preserve and narrate the story of the<br />
African continent, and specifically South Africa, from the dawn of humanity,<br />
through pre-colonial, colonial and apartheid history and heritage, to the<br />
post-apartheid nation of today. It is a long walk, spanning some 3.6 billion<br />
years.<br />
Vision<br />
To be a leading national and international icon of humanity and freedom.<br />
Mission<br />
To provide a pioneering and empowering heritage destination in order to<br />
mobilise for reconciliation and nation building in our country;<br />
To reflect upon our past, improving our present and building our future as a<br />
united nation; and<br />
To contribute continentally and internationally to the formation of better<br />
human understanding among nations and peoples;<br />
The Freedom Park cultural precinct:<br />
• Advocates for tolerance, inclusivity, transparency, and accountability;<br />
• Archives and preserves South Africa’s indigenous knowledge;<br />
• Tells the South African story as it unfolds;<br />
• Honours those who gave their lives for South Africa’s freedom;<br />
• Provides a place where visitors can experience the diversity of our history<br />
and remember loved ones who played a role in the country’s history;<br />
• Provides a venue where South Africa’s unique heritage and cultures can<br />
be remembered, cherished and celebrated;<br />
• Fosters a South African community spirit, by being a symbol of unity<br />
through diversity; and,<br />
• Works with African and other international institutions to tell the story<br />
of Africa from an African perspective.
I want to an e<br />
We pride ourselves of being entrepreneurial spirited. But is it really<br />
so? Do we do enough for supporting entrepreneurs and start-ups?<br />
And especially youth wanting to try their hand at being business<br />
owners.<br />
Let us try to look at what is needed.<br />
This is not to discourage anyone.<br />
It is really to help youth to realise<br />
what is needed. If you haven’t got<br />
all of these things, well, then go get<br />
them!<br />
It is discouraging to read about the<br />
‘big’ entrepreneurs, like Richard<br />
Branson, Alan Sugar, Google, Bill Gates, etc etc. When I just have<br />
an idea of providing an app for services in the neighbourhood.<br />
With a website and manage follow-ups ad those things. As an example.<br />
So instead of trying to get a job, why not do it yourself? But how?<br />
Business plan: can you describe what you want to do? In few sentences?<br />
If you waffle, think again.<br />
And write it again. Until it is<br />
clear.<br />
Financials: if the start will require<br />
some buying of equipment, you<br />
may need money from somewhere.<br />
The business plan will<br />
spell out why you need it, and<br />
your financials will justify it all.<br />
If you don’t know Excel well
ntrepreneur!<br />
enough, get to know it or get<br />
mom/dad/school to help.<br />
The financials should show that<br />
your business is viable.<br />
The ‘spirit’: Have you got what<br />
it takes? Can you work every day<br />
for months on end and survive<br />
on very little until it starts to<br />
take off? If you can, you may have the ‘spirit’.<br />
Sell it: … and that is the critical part. You will need to sell it to a<br />
bank, sell the solution to a customer, sell … and so on. YOU are the<br />
sales force to begin with, and the developer, and … everybody.<br />
Skills: this is the hard part. Do we really equip youth to become<br />
business owners? We talk about the skills required and knowledge<br />
about the legal aspects. SARS, VAT, CIPC, DTI, Bank, insurance,<br />
(Pty) Ltd, CC, and a million other things.<br />
I foresee that we need a much stronger focus on the practical<br />
skills of entrepreneurship in grade 10-12. Maybe it needs to be<br />
extra-murals? Maybe it needs to be additional alongside the usual<br />
curriculum. If you want it badly enough, you may have to sacrifice<br />
hours in the evenings to build the skills. It<br />
could be a solution.<br />
After all, being an entrepreneur is actually<br />
very hard work the first few years. Why not<br />
start now in grade 10-12? If you want it.
Booth Schoch Future Succ<br />
Ford Resource and E<br />
This is a press release emailed to us. All content is the responsibility<br />
of the issuer.<br />
PRETORIA, South Africa, 6 <strong>June</strong> <strong>2018</strong> - Ford Motor Company Fund<br />
is expanding its community empowerment and upliftment programs<br />
in South Africa with the establishment of the Booth Schoch<br />
Future Success Fund at the Ford Resource and Engagement Centre<br />
(FREC) located in Pretoria, South Africa.<br />
The Fund is named in honour of former Ford Motor Company of<br />
Southern Africa (FMCSA) president (and later chief financial officer<br />
of Ford Motor Company) Lewis Booth, and former chief financial<br />
officer (and later president of Ford Asia Pacific) Dave Schoch,<br />
who were enthusiastic champions<br />
of the local Mamelodi<br />
Township community.<br />
Ford Motor Company Fund,<br />
the philanthropic arm of Ford<br />
Motor Company, will work<br />
with South African partner<br />
NGO, Future Families, in managing<br />
this program which will launch in early 2019. It will endow<br />
the Fund for 10 years with a grant of $100,000 (around R1.25-million),<br />
enabling $10,000 (approximately R125 000) to be awarded<br />
to deserving FREC students each year.<br />
The grant will assist the selected FREC graduates who have completed<br />
the Entrepreneurship Program to start in-home businesses,<br />
or for nominated students in the Early Childhood Development<br />
training and certification program to establish After <strong>School</strong> Care<br />
Centres.<br />
“We are proud to extend our local empowerment and upliftment
ess Fund established at<br />
ngagement Centre<br />
programs by introducing the Booth Schoch Future Success Fund<br />
to build on the legacy of the commendable initiatives introduced<br />
by Lewis Booth and Dave Schoch during their tenures in South<br />
Africa,” said Jim Vella, president, Ford Motor Company Fund and<br />
Community Services.<br />
“The Fund will continue the great work being done at the Ford<br />
Resource and Engagement Centre by providing grants to local<br />
community members who<br />
participate in FREC education<br />
and training programs,” Vella<br />
added. “This will empower<br />
them to take the next step in<br />
their employment journey, and<br />
assist the recipients in achieving<br />
their future success as an<br />
individual and as a contributing<br />
member of the broader<br />
community.”<br />
It is a fitting tribute to Booth and Schoch who, among other<br />
accomplishments, in the early 2000s had the vision to create and<br />
launch the original Ford Care Centre on the grounds of Ford’s<br />
Silverton Assembly Plant in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic<br />
which had devastated the local community. In 2001, the United<br />
States Department of State recognized Ford Motor Company with<br />
an Award for Corporate Excellence for its South Africa HIV/AIDS<br />
workplace program.<br />
In 2015, the Ford Care Centre was expanded to become the Ford<br />
Resource and Engagement Centre (FREC), adding education, training,<br />
and entrepreneurship programs to its community offerings.
“In university, you can fail before writing your semester examinations”<br />
is a popular expression used by many senior students when<br />
describing the challenging part of university to first years. This is<br />
due to a mark, termed as ‘predicate’, that a student needs to obtain<br />
in order to participate in a semester examination for a specific<br />
module, and it differs from each university in<br />
accordance to their policies.<br />
Interestingly, there is a day or week (depending<br />
on the university) that will be dedicated<br />
to the release of the predicate of each<br />
module. This is usually towards the end of a<br />
semester. During this week or day, preliminary<br />
predicates can be released by the specific<br />
facilitators of each module.<br />
It is then the responsibility of each student<br />
enrolled to check whether all the required<br />
marks and/or percentages are correct and<br />
accurate or else the predicate will not be accurate.<br />
“In univer<br />
you can fa<br />
fore writi<br />
semester<br />
inations”<br />
This has to be the responsibility of the student because in university,<br />
numerous people are registered and enrolled for a module,<br />
therefore error during the capturing of data is likely possible and<br />
tracing error can be difficult.<br />
However, a student cannot go to the module facilitators and mere-
ly claim that a predicate is incorrect. A student claiming an error in<br />
the predicate is required to have proof.<br />
This proof is the actual test and/or assignment paper attributed<br />
with a student number and an allocated mark. If it was an online<br />
test or assignment, it is important for the student to provide a<br />
screenshot or PDF file to show that it is definitely the correct mark.<br />
Therefore it becomes very important for every student to safely<br />
keep hardcopy tests and assignments after feedback and when<br />
completing online assignments and tests, to take a screenshot of<br />
the submission and completion. However, with online assignments<br />
and tests, error is less likely to happen as the programmes (software<br />
packages) that are usually used are rated efficient and accurate<br />
compared to the capturing of hardcopy marks.<br />
On the other hand, predicate day or week to some students stimulates<br />
emotions and anxiety because it could happen that the<br />
students have not accumulated the required<br />
predicate.<br />
sity,<br />
il beng<br />
your<br />
exam-<br />
This will then translate to a fail and to some,<br />
an extra year of study depending on whether<br />
the module is a pre-requisite or major.<br />
Use of academic advising at the university can<br />
clarify this challenge in detail and in accordance<br />
to the rules of the faculty and university.<br />
Students who find themselves in this<br />
situation can make use of counselling services<br />
and other support systems offered by the<br />
university.
Predicate Day<br />
Additionally, predicate day or week to some students<br />
does not mean to merely qualify for the examination<br />
but it also confirms whether they have promoted a<br />
specific module or not.<br />
A student is only permitted to promote a module if a<br />
predicate mark of 70% or 75% and more is obtained<br />
depending on the requirements of the specific module<br />
and the university.<br />
Thereafter a student is exempted in writing the examination<br />
of the module and the predicate mark is used<br />
as the final mark.<br />
However, it is important for a student to note whether<br />
a module is considered a promotion module or not<br />
because not all modules are promotable<br />
Masiziba Hadebe.
The quote of the month:<br />
... and I trust I do not get into<br />
trouble with any copyrights!
THE Summit of them all<br />
This is really a lot of info gleaned from a lot of newspapers and<br />
website, BBC being the most prominent of them all. However, the<br />
analysis is 100% mine alone.<br />
We have previously looked at North Korea. Let us quickly recap a<br />
few things. The living standard is not high compared<br />
to anything in this world. It was probably OK when<br />
China was just as poor, but that has changed. With<br />
the advent of the internet and easy access to cell<br />
phones, North Koreans are starting to see that the<br />
world is not on the brink of exterminating them all<br />
and only checked by Mr. Kim (himself – all alone<br />
that is).<br />
With North Korea spending a pile of money (which<br />
they really don’t have) on weapons of all kinds,<br />
especially the nuclear stuff, there is a big hole in the<br />
economy. China used to be very generous and extending<br />
credits and so on. After all, 98% of all North<br />
Korean trade is with China. But then China started to<br />
pull the plug on it.<br />
This is<br />
“oneshot”<br />
peace
I think they got a bit nervous<br />
about North Kore as a nuclear<br />
power. And on top of, China<br />
is far more interested in trade<br />
and good relations with the<br />
US. So dropping Mr. Kim is<br />
rather easy.<br />
But Kim is a good player, we<br />
have to acknowledge that.<br />
He has managed to turn the nuclear option (which was rapidly<br />
becoming a liability) into an asset. So if he should sacrifice his<br />
nuclear ambition for a good relationship with the US? Then what?<br />
It saves money and it did the trick: put him at the table with the<br />
other powers.<br />
Now suddenly he is popular with Mr Putin. And Trump does not<br />
like that. But hey, he just showed Mr. Trump that the US is not<br />
the only game in town. Clever move!<br />
But it goes further. When Trump cancelled the meeting, Europe<br />
was on its feet and persuading Trump to go ahead with it. So<br />
now suddenly Europe was interested in North<br />
it:<br />
Korea. That was new. They had not been greatly<br />
enthusiastic about anything North before, positive<br />
or negative.<br />
time<br />
at<br />
Mr. Kim could indeed take it easy. No need to<br />
push anything around. Europe could do that for<br />
him. And that also worked fairly well.<br />
What do we expect? Sanctions to go away somehow<br />
and the nuclear options being chucked in the<br />
bin. Normal trade coming online very fast, also<br />
with South Korea.
It can change the world! and to<br />
What does Mr. Kim really want?<br />
This is a most horrible thing to answer. Mr. Kim is a semi-god and reve<br />
want fame and fortune on the world stage? Is it ego or what do we see<br />
Here is my view – and it might be totally wrong. I believe that Mr. Kim<br />
be no mistake, the army could easily dispose of him. So he must keep<br />
weapons and keeping them in power.<br />
On the other hand, there is a real chance (as<br />
popular uprising. It is not possible to suppress<br />
is another life (China and South Korea are<br />
Could it be that he really wants to unleash<br />
nation? To copy the Chinese example? Chuck<br />
country, even if it has to be called something<br />
My view that is exactly what he is aiming at.<br />
probably not more than that, for now at least.<br />
The world is still dominated by the US and he<br />
needs more trading partners and that can only<br />
Will there be others? Of course. I predict that India will be in on it, and<br />
flow and there is an untapped market for loans and credits.<br />
Where will it end? In some very few years we will see that North Korea<br />
China will be a partner but far less influential.<br />
The Kim dynasty will still be in place and soon he will have to anoint a<br />
close family this time.<br />
The military will be downgraded. There will be no need to spend so mu
something better - for once<br />
red and feared and so on. What more can he possible want? Does he<br />
?<br />
is aiming at reforming North Korea and still stay in power. Let there<br />
the generals happy (and that is mostly family as well) by buying them<br />
small as it might be) that there could be a<br />
information forever. People can see that there<br />
great examples).<br />
North Korea’s potential as an industrialised<br />
communism and go for an open capitalistic<br />
else (as it is in China).<br />
The glorified unification is a great slogan, but<br />
needs the trade. China is big on his radar. He<br />
be US and other Asian countries.<br />
that Singapore will provide financing of new things. Money must<br />
will compete directly with South Korea and maybe even be bigger.<br />
successor in the great game. My bet is that it will be outside the<br />
ch money for nothing! It did the trick.
We provide loans and bursaries to<br />
students at all 26 public universities<br />
and 50 public TVET colleges<br />
throughout the country.
CAPITAL HOTEL SCHOOL STU<br />
CAL TRAINING ABOARD<br />
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Pretoria, South Africa – <strong>2018</strong>:<br />
Capital Hotel <strong>School</strong> , one of the leading training institutions for<br />
Hospitality Management and Professional Cookery, recently partnered<br />
with The Blue Train , South Africa’s ‘Blue Jewel’ and most<br />
well-known tourism icon.<br />
Second year Hospitality Management students and all-round<br />
highest performers, Catalina de Sousa and Marli Barnard were recently<br />
invited aboard the legendary Blue Train for a unique practical<br />
training experience. We chat to them about their experience<br />
aboard this legacy train – both as part of the team and as a guest<br />
of The Blue Train.<br />
Catalina who has always had a passion for the hospitality industry<br />
and one day wants to own and run her own hotel says that, “The<br />
Blue Train is without a doubt one of the most pleasant places to<br />
do your practical training!” The team aboard The Blue Train were<br />
incredibly friendly and helpful and my experience was amazing!”<br />
Amidst learning how to serve guests when the floor is unstable<br />
and moving and making beds in the most confined spaces, Catalina<br />
was also exposed to beautiful parts of South Africa and managed<br />
to explore a bit of Cape Town too.<br />
Marli, who has a passion for working with people and event<br />
co-ordination, dreams of one day becoming a Sommelier - a<br />
trained and knowledgeable wine professional. She was equally as<br />
excited by the practical experience she received on The Blue Train<br />
and highlights that some of her fondest moments was getting to
DENTS UNDERTAKE PRACTI-<br />
THE ICONIC BLUE TRAIN<br />
experience the very best of South Africa with guests from all over<br />
the world and working with professional people that know the<br />
industry.<br />
The students share some valuable tips that they learnt - for those<br />
wishing to take a trip or work aboard The Blue Train.<br />
• Pack lightly as there is not a lot of space in your room.<br />
• If you have big suitcases, make sure to remove everything that<br />
you need for the journey and allow it to be stored in the storage<br />
carriage<br />
• It gets quite cold during the morning so be prepared and<br />
bring extra jackets<br />
• Wear comfortable shoes as you could easily walk more than<br />
15,000 steps a day<br />
• Get your camera ready and take as many pictures as you can<br />
because there is so many amazing and breath-taking views<br />
along the way<br />
• Always make sure that you are in the observation room when<br />
the sun is about to set – it is beautiful!<br />
Capital Hotel <strong>School</strong> believe that if you have the desire, passion<br />
and enthusiasm to excel in this industry, nothing in the world will<br />
stop you achieving your goals, and this experience was a stepping<br />
stone for these ladies in realising their dreams and ambitions and<br />
making it a reality.<br />
For more information or to register at Capital Hotel <strong>School</strong>, follow<br />
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From Russia with love:<br />
The World Cup<br />
Now we thought football or soccer was recognized throughout history?<br />
Well, not so. And the World Cup has had a rough time as well. Wiki says:<br />
The world’s first international football match was a challenge match<br />
played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England, which ended<br />
in a 0–0 draw.<br />
The first international tournament,<br />
the inaugural edition of the British<br />
Home Championship, took place in<br />
1884. As football grew in popularity<br />
in other parts of the world at the<br />
turn of the 20th century, it was held<br />
as a demonstration sport with no<br />
medals awarded at the 1900 and<br />
1904 Summer Olympics and at the 1906 Intercalated Games.<br />
After FIFA was founded in 1904, it tried to arrange an international<br />
football tournament between nations outside the Olympic framework in<br />
Switzerland in 1906. It was a failure.
At the 1908 Summer Olympics<br />
in London, football became an<br />
official competition<br />
With the Olympic event continuing<br />
to be contested only<br />
between amateur teams, Sir<br />
Thomas Lipton organised the<br />
Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy<br />
tournament in Turin in 1909.<br />
The Lipton tournament was a<br />
championship between individual clubs from different nations, each one<br />
of which represented an entire nation.<br />
The competition is sometimes described as The First World Cup, and<br />
featured the most prestigious professional club sides from Italy, Germany<br />
and Switzerland.<br />
Fast forward to 1930. National teams. No more amateur sport and Olympics!<br />
It is FIFA full throttle.<br />
The first two World Cup matches took place simultaneously on 13 July<br />
1930, and were won by France and the USA, who defeated Mexico 4–1<br />
and Belgium 3–0 respectively. The first goal in World Cup history was<br />
scored by Lucien Laurent of France. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina<br />
4–2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo, and in doing<br />
so became the first nation to win the World Cup.<br />
It got to go fast now: The World<br />
Cup is the most prestigious<br />
association football tournament<br />
in the world as well as the most<br />
widely viewed and followed<br />
sporting event in the world,<br />
exceeding even the Olympic<br />
Games; the cumulative audience<br />
of all matches of the 2006 World<br />
Cup was estimated to be 26.29<br />
billion with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the final match, a<br />
ninth of the entire population of the planet
Gauteng, home to Africa’s<br />
economic powerhouse,<br />
Johannesburg, boasts an<br />
exciting mix of urban lifestyle,<br />
diverse cultural and natural<br />
attractions, as well as<br />
advanced infrastructure.<br />
Call us and we’ll show you<br />
why Gauteng in South Africa<br />
is the perfect location to<br />
bring your big idea to<br />
vibrant, colourful life.
Sunbake: Helping w<br />
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The winners of The<br />
Sunbake Super <strong>School</strong>s<br />
Challenge, now in its<br />
5th year, have been<br />
announced, and will<br />
each be receiving a library<br />
container filled<br />
with books. On Monday<br />
28 May <strong>2018</strong>, Rethabile<br />
Primary <strong>School</strong> in Limpopo was the first of three schools each<br />
receiving a container library to the value of R50 000, plus an R10<br />
000 book voucher.<br />
From 29 January to 28 March<br />
<strong>2018</strong>, learners in Gauteng,<br />
Limpopo, Mpumalanga and<br />
North West were challenged<br />
to collect Sunbake bread bags,<br />
complete the entry form on<br />
the bag and deposit it in a<br />
Sunbake collection bag at<br />
their school, and boy did they<br />
participate! Each week these bags were collected and spot prizes<br />
including PEP vouchers, cool backpacks and umbrellas were handed<br />
out. In total 1,9 million bags were collected with Rethabile<br />
Primary <strong>School</strong> in Phalaborwa, Khombindlela Primary <strong>School</strong> in<br />
Tsakane and Lesabe Primary <strong>School</strong> in Benoni being the three top<br />
performers.
here it is needed!<br />
The Rethabile Primary <strong>School</strong><br />
handover event was hosted by<br />
local television star, Sandile ‘GQ’<br />
Ntshingila from MTV Base, and<br />
was a fun-filled morning with<br />
dance-offs and surprise giveaways<br />
for the children in attendance.<br />
“We are so thrilled to be<br />
one of the schools receiving a<br />
container library and cannot wait for the children to start making<br />
use of the books and enriching their learning experience,” notes<br />
Rethabile Primary <strong>School</strong> Headmaster, Peter Maake.<br />
The aim of the Sunbake Super <strong>School</strong>s Challenge is to uplift South<br />
African communities through cooperation and outreach. “We are<br />
committed to uplifting the South African communities we operate<br />
in,” says Siyabonga Mhlongo, Brand Manager for Sunbake. “We<br />
know that you can’t teach a hungry child and at Sunbake, we aim<br />
to enrich learners with the sustenance they need to be productive<br />
in the classroom.”<br />
Sunbake looks forward to<br />
more initiatives to support<br />
South African communities<br />
and are excited to hand over<br />
not only the top three container<br />
prizes but also an R5<br />
000 book voucher for each of<br />
the top five schools in each<br />
participating region.
Science is a lot of things<br />
It is easy to always think science in connection with technology. Like<br />
science is only related to developing new machines, robots, flying objects<br />
and those things.<br />
Science is indeed a lot of things. This time we would like to draw the<br />
attention to National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences -<br />
NIHSS.<br />
NIHSS charter is (from their website www.<br />
nihss.ac.za):<br />
The National Institute for the Humanities<br />
and Social Sciences (NIHSS) was established<br />
on 5 December 2013 as an independent<br />
statutory body. [….] The scope or application<br />
of the NIHSS will be to advance<br />
and co-ordinate scholarship, research and ethical practice in the fields of<br />
Humanities and the Social Sciences (HSS) within and through the existing<br />
public universities and those to be established or declared in future as<br />
public Universities.<br />
In essence: supporting the humanities and social sciences in SA.<br />
But what is social sciences? Wiki says: “Social science is a major category<br />
of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships<br />
among individuals within a society. Social science as a whole has many
anches, each of which is considered a social science. The social sciences<br />
include, but are not limited to: anthropology, archaeology, economics,<br />
history, human geography, jurisprudence, linguistics, political<br />
science, psychology, public health, and sociology”<br />
In essence: we are talking people. A history professor is within the ambit<br />
of Social Sciences, etc.<br />
NIHSS programmes are:<br />
The NIHSS has partnered with the Council for the Development of<br />
Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) to develop the African<br />
Pathways Doctoral Scholarship Programme. A Doctoral Scholarship Call<br />
is opened to suitably qualified non-South African students to study full<br />
time towards a doctoral degree in the humanities and social sciences at<br />
any public university in South Africa.<br />
The NIHSS collaborates annually with the South African Humanities<br />
Deans Association (SAHUDA) to extend 150 scholarships per annum to<br />
full-time PhD students based at South African universities. The NIHSS<br />
Strategic Plan for 2015 – 2020 sets a target of 900 South African students<br />
partaking in Doctoral <strong>School</strong>s by 2020.<br />
NIHSS is actively into the BRICS Think Tank. This might be one of the<br />
major innovations and successes of BRICS. This – please – is a big area.<br />
Please look at www.nihss.ac.za.<br />
Is NIHSS then successful? Judge yourself: “The National Institute for<br />
the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted another exciting and energised<br />
Annual National Doctoral Conference (ANDC) on 01-02 November<br />
2017.<br />
At least 200 NIHSS<br />
PhD-supported fellows<br />
were on site sharing<br />
knowledge and networking.<br />
[…] The twoday<br />
conference saw a<br />
red carpet rolled out<br />
during a gala dinner on 01 November evening where a first cohort of<br />
NIHSS-supported graduates were honoured and celebrated.<br />
PS: we were there! And it was huge!<br />
PPS: Science is a lot of things!
The Trophies!<br />
We stay with the World Cup. Now,<br />
the trophy. That one has a different<br />
story. Or actually those two. Yes,<br />
there were/are two trophies at play<br />
here. All from Wiki, btw<br />
The first one was commissioned by<br />
the first FIFA president, Jules Rimet.<br />
It was an imposing thing. It was<br />
made of gold plated sterling silver<br />
and lapis lazuli and depicted Nike,<br />
the Greek goddess of victory.<br />
During World War II, the trophy<br />
was held by 1938 champion Italy.<br />
Ottorino Barassi, the Italian vice-president of FIFA, secretly transported<br />
the trophy from a bank in Rome and hid it in a shoe-box under his bed to<br />
prevent Adolf Hitler and the Nazis from taking it.<br />
On 20 March 1966, four months<br />
before the 1966 FIFA World Cup<br />
in England, the trophy was stolen<br />
during a public exhibition at<br />
Westminster Central Hall. The<br />
trophy was found just seven days<br />
later wrapped in newspaper at<br />
the bottom of a suburban garden<br />
hedge on Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, South London, by a dog named<br />
Pickles. How English can this be?<br />
The Brazilian team won the tournament for the third time in 1970, allowing<br />
them to keep the real trophy in perpetuity, as had been stipulated<br />
by Jules Rimet in 1930. It was put on display at the Brazilian Football<br />
Confederation headquarters in Rio de Janeiro in a cabinet with a front of<br />
bullet-proof glass.
On 19 December 1983, the wooden rear of<br />
the cabinet was pried open with a crowbar<br />
and the cup was stolen again. Four<br />
men were tried and convicted in absentia<br />
for the crime. The trophy has never been<br />
recovered, and it is widely believed to have<br />
been melted down and sold.<br />
Only one piece of the Jules Rimet Trophy<br />
has been found, the original base which<br />
FIFA had kept in a basement of the federation’s Zürich headquarters<br />
prior to 2015.<br />
The Confederation commissioned a replica of their own, made by<br />
Eastman Kodak, using 1.8 kilograms (4.0 lb) of gold. This replica was<br />
presented to Brazilian military president João Figueiredo in 1984.<br />
A replacement trophy was commissioned by FIFA for the 1974 World<br />
Cup. The trophy is made of 5 kilograms of 18 carat gold, worth approximately<br />
US$150,000 in 2017. It has been asserted that the trophy<br />
is hollow; if, as is claimed, it were solid, the trophy would weigh<br />
70–80 kilograms and would be too heavy to lift.<br />
Now we know!
The Alligator<br />
Myth: It<br />
is not true,<br />
sorry<br />
Urban Myth, but I still think it could just be…. It is from https://<br />
www.livescience.com/33322-alligators-crocodiles-new-york-citysewers.html<br />
That claim has been around for decades. The myth starts with a<br />
young boy who gets a baby alligator for his birthday and flushes it<br />
down the toilet, not knowing what else to do about it. Years later,<br />
as the story goes, that same boy reaches into a sewer grate for a lost<br />
baseball, and his arm is ripped off by his former pet, now monstrous<br />
and ravenous for blood.<br />
Trumping all myths, however, is the fact that alligators wouldn’t<br />
survive long in sewers.<br />
In a 1982 interview with The New York Times, sewer bureau spokesman<br />
John T. Flaherty said, “I could cite you many cogent, logical<br />
reasons why the sewer system is not a fit habitat for an alligator. But<br />
suffice it to say that, in the 28 years I have been in the sewer game,<br />
neither I nor any of the thousands<br />
of men who have worked<br />
to build, maintain or repair the<br />
sewer system has ever seen one,<br />
and a 10-foot, 800-pound alligator<br />
would be hard to miss.”<br />
… But I am not totally convinced!
career path, by collecting information that will help<br />
HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR CAREER<br />
Knowing<br />
yourself<br />
and your<br />
capabilities<br />
Choose your<br />
Subjects<br />
Career<br />
Planning<br />
Career<br />
choice<br />
For you to pursue<br />
your career choice.<br />
You need to pass<br />
your National<br />
Senior Certificate!<br />
The Eastern Cape Department of<br />
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them pursue their career / field of study.<br />
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Next Issue<br />
July is coming. It has got a lot<br />
for us to look at. July is going<br />
to be the last stretch for our<br />
grade 12s. It is the sprint to<br />
the finishing line. And also<br />
for our grade 11s to start preparing<br />
for grade 12.<br />
In may ways, grade 11 is sort<br />
of in-between. The ‘newness’<br />
of matric years has gone and<br />
it is not yet the last year.<br />
We will try to look at that.<br />
We will look forward to<br />
more from Masiziba and also<br />
from Fikile who is now back<br />
with us. Graphic design is a<br />
challenging education. More<br />
from her.<br />
International? no clue yet.<br />
But there will surely be a<br />
conspiracy or urban myth.<br />
Look forward!<br />
Sybil