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in the Chairman’s Chat
news…
Dear Old Albanians
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Old Albanian Committee Welcome to 2016 and I hope it is a happy and prosperous
2016 for all of you.
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2015 College Developments What 2016 brings for the Old Boys Planning is well underway for both these
committee is new faces and new events so if you haven’t received any
PAGE 10 energy and hopefully this will communique regarding these events
Academic Achievements translate into more engagement please let us know and we will ensure that
with the Old Albanian Committee you receive the relevant information.
PAGE 11-12 and more involvement by the Old Another event we are in the initial planning
Sports News Albanian community. phase of is an Old Albanian Gala Dinner and
once we have a clear path on this event we
PAGE 13 In June 2015 at our AGM a new Old will also communicate it with you.
Cultural, Spiritual & Albanian committee was elected and Sue Daffon will be our liaison officer going
Community this year is the first opportunity that the forward and one of her clear strengths is
committee gets to implements what it has communication with Old Albanians, which
PAGE 15-16 been planning for the past 5-6 months. is one area where we came up short in
Reunions We will be focussing a lot more on 2015, so we have all the faith in the world
communication with the Old Albanian that you will see a marked improvement
PAGE 17 community out there and hopefully you in 2016.
Old Albanian Sport will see the results of our efforts. Here’s to a great year and I hope to see
We will be focussing on two, maybe three, many of you supporting the various events
PAGE 18 Big Ticket items for 2016, one being the in 2016
Student Leadership Team Old Boys’ Golf Day and the other being the
200 Club Dinner. Regards
Phetogo Monaisa

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Sue’s Update

Sue Daffon – Old Albanian Relations Manager

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful festive
season and may 2016 be all that you hope it to be.

COMMUNITY Wow! What an eventful year 2015 was – and I’m sure many of you
CONSISTENCY feel the same! If I were to report fully on the life of the College
COMMUNICATION during 2015, you would need a glass (or 2) of wine and some
leisure time to take it all in! So on this occasion I will recap rather.
From now on I will be sending a termly newsletter, so the news
will be more current when you receive it!

Allow me to introduce you to the 2016 Old Albanian Committee:
Grant Nupen Class of ‘66 – Honorary President, Phetogo Monaisa Class of ‘95 –
Chairman, Warwick van Breda Class of ‘98 – Vice Chair, Murray Barnetson Class of ‘87,
Garth Ridgway Class of ‘86, David Musto Class of ‘72, Johnny Nkuna Class of ‘01,
Jesse Lodge Class of ‘09, Alex Powell Class of ‘00, Ian Cameron Class of ‘95,
Rob Walker Class of ‘05, Garreth Cohen (OA Hockey Club rep) Class of ‘02,
George Weetman, Rob Campbell-Atkins (Staff rep), Ian Learmonth Class of ‘06
and me! Some of you will remember me as Sue Harris (DSG 1984-96) and from then
as Sue Daffon, the second wife of the late Paul Daffon (College 1982-96).

Michael Davis Class of ‘11 has undertaken Finally, may I ask that you send news that
t o b e t h e Communications Manager and many of you you would like to share along with updated
will already have heard from him as he endeavours to get a details. As with any computer I can only
rather sad and depleted database up to date. output what I am given as input!
If you know of any current details please send them to
Mike on [email protected] Contact details: Sue Daffon 083 459 8639
[email protected]

NB: PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT IN ANY
CORRESPONDENCE YOU INDICATE YOUR YEAR GROUP!

Wishing you all blessings and good wishes
for 2016.
Enjoy your first newsletter...

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COMMUNICATION 2015 opened with the usual influx of New Boys, their Camp and the New
Prefects, lead by Ruan Murison as HoS making everyone feel welcome.
And 2015 finished with the Valediction and Farewells to the Matrics.
And that was the year that was!

In the year of our 50th Celebrations the new San was
dedicated by Bishop Jo Seoka and opened by Paul and
Ann Marsh, after whom the building is named – The
Paul and Ann Marsh Medical Centre. (right)It stands
opposite the old squash court. Sister Elaine Davis is still
looking after the sick, ailing and injured!
In that year too, extensions to the Chamberlain
Block were completed through the generosity of the
Chamberlain family. A new Fountain at the entrance
was a birthday present from WHPS.

The Von Geusau Squash court has been converted into a Welcome Centre, so if you
come to visit that’s where you can meet for coffee. Richard and Christopher came along
with their mother Irma to perform the official opening.

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A look inside the Von Geusau Welcome Centre

There are 2 new roads PAGE 4
– David Butcher Drive,
running past the Day Boy
Common Rooms and the
Mike Beaumont Avenue
running up through where
the old squash courts were
up to Chapel gate so that
technically there can be
one-way traffic. And two
more vital, integral and
long-serving members of
the Albanian community
have been honoured.

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As the school has grown it became
necessary to enlarge the Amphitheatre in
order to accommodate the whole school
for Wednesday Assemblies.

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Many of you will not have seen the new
Todd Learning Enhancement Centre,
redesigned and developed at the site of
the old Statech. It has proved to be most
successful with open areas for large group
teaching, smaller rooms for groups and
some seminar rooms. The library has been
incorporated into this magnificent building
and it is at the high end of technology
too. Long-serving staff, Ron Beyers, Gill
Alexander and Barbara Richards were
honoured at the opening in having rooms
named after them.

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A look into the Todd Learning Enhancement Centre PAGE 6

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There is now a fully equipped Gymnasium for the boys to train in and needless to say it
is very popular!

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All the Dayboy and Boarder Common Rooms have been upgraded, often through the
generosity of the Parent Committee of a particular House. You wouldn’t know yourselves
if you were a student now!

The interiors of the Boarding Houses have also been upgraded, again often with the
assistance of parents wanting to give back.

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COMMUNITY Most recently, the Hamilton Hall has been extended out into the most beautiful Quad
CONSISTENCY area and we held the 2015 Carol Service there as its opening. The repositioned Bell Tower
COMMUNICATION looks different, but the original stone is still its foundation.

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Academics

The current Matric exam is the IEB (Independent Examination Board).

COMMUNITY The Class of 2015 achieved a 100% pass rate with 102 out of the 107 candidates (95.33%)
CONSISTENCY achieving a Bachelor Degree Pass, 4 candidates (3.74%) achieving a Diploma Pass and 1
COMMUNICATION candidate achieving a Higher Certificate Pass (three of these candidates have qualified
for supplementary examinations and may be able to upgrade their final result next year).
The Class of 2015 achieved 180 distinctions in total. This is in line with their achievements in
their Form 4 year where they achieved 179 distinctions and their Preliminary examination
results where they achieved 165 distinctions. This translates into 1.68 distinctions per
candidate which makes the Class of 2015 the best ever, easily surpassing the Class of
2010 which had a ratio of 1.57.

A brilliant effort indeed!

CANDIDATES 2015 % 2014 % 2013 % 2012 % 2011 % 2010 %
PASSES 107 109 108 117 98 113
BD PASSES 107 100% 109 100% 108 100% 116 99,1% 97 99,0% 113 100%
D PASSES 102 95.33% 104 95.41% 91 84,3% 97 82,9% 86 87,8% 100 88,4%
HC PASSES 4 3.74% 5 4,59% 13 12,0% 15 12,8% 10 10,2% 11 9,7%
FAIL 1 0.93% 0 0% 4 3,7% 4 3,4% 1 1% 2 1,8%
DISTINCTIONS 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 0,9% 1 1% 0 0%
RATIO 185 170 121 163 113 178
1.73 1.56 1,12 1,39 1,15 1,57

The subject averages for the Class of 2015 in all the major subjects are significantly higher
than that of the IEB national averages. These subjects include Mathematics, English,
Afrikaans and Physical Science.

Old Albanians are at the forefront of many dynamic professions and are making their
mark globally. Dr Irshaard Ebrahim, Class of ’83 was awarded Honours for Leadership at
the 50th Gala Dinner. Irshaard is M.D at The London Sleep Centre and has, very recently,
opened a similar facility in Dubai.

Henry Thackeray Class of ’09 and son of Francis Thackeray, Class of ’70, was the Top
Matriculant whilst at school and has since graduated from TUKS as an outstanding
student. Francis, by the way has already replied to the 2016 Reunion Save the Date saying
he will most definitely be attending!

OLD ALBANIAN 200 CLUB
The Old Albanian 200 Club is an initiative taken on by the Old Albanian Club with the
aim of raising funds to benefit the Old Albanian Community and children thereof, who
may well not be able to afford their children the privilege that they had of attending the
College. There will be 200 members each contributing R100 per month. Each member
will then be entered into a quarterly lucky draw where 25% of the collected funds will
be dispersed as prizes. The other 75% will then go into the fund. For further information
please contact Ian Cameron at [email protected] Cell: 078 803 3033.

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Sports

COMMUNITY There is no doubt that as a small school (563 at the time of writing)
CONSISTENCY St Alban’s has to box above its weight in most of the competitive
COMMUNICATION sports. The Sports Department lead by Craig Hoyer is flourishing with
talented coaches. An aside – Barry Detert Class of ‘ 87 left in 2011 and
is currently the Director of Sport at St Peter’s College.

CRICKET

SWIMMING Josh Richards ‘09, David Bunn ‘10, Matthew
Although Water Polo has become the Arnold ‘06, Ryan Cartwright ‘’10 are all still
water sport of choice, the swimmers focussing on their cricket careers. Matthew
had a great year, finishing 3rd at Inter- is playing for Gauteng, Ryan and Rivaldo
High, our highest place ever. There Moonsammy are playing Northerns Amateur
were 4 Provincial swimmers and 1 Cricket and Rivaldo is off to the U19 World Cup.
Botswana National Colours. 2015 was an outstanding year for the Cricket
Club, being unbeaten and ending at number 3
STOP PRESS! INTER-HOUSE GALA 2016 in the National rankings. There were notable
wins over Paarl Boys’ High, Affies and Pretoria
Carl Marais’ 18 year old record for U17 Boys’ High. The team was unbeaten at the
Butterfly was broken! Duncan Rudolph took Independent Schools’ Festival and Josh van
it in a time of 27.24 and then went on to take Heerden became the first College boy to
2 of Chris Mason’s 19 year old records – u17 score 2 centuries in one match. They too had
4x50m IM in a time of 2.12.22 and the U17 a tour to Sri Lanka and won 6 of 7 games.
100m Breaststroke in a time of 1.05.52! HOCKEY
Legendary Dave Musto, Class of ‘72 and
The winning House was MacRobert, followed subsequently staff, left in 2010, after almost
by De Beer, with Murray in 3rd place. The 20 years of service to his alma mater which
Spirit Trophy went to Knapp-Fisher, followed has been so much a part of the Musto family
by Murray with MacRobert in 3rd place. life. So much so that Dave has just returned to
serve on the OA committee.
Ryan Anderson, Class of ‘00, Director of
Hockey has moved to the opposition this
year, as the Director of Hockey at Pretoria
Boys’ High. Ryan has now run 9 Comrade
Marathons in the number of his late father,
Dave Anderson Class of’ ’72.
Estiaan Kriek Class of ’13 played for Northerns
Men and attended the SA U21 Training camp.

WATER POLO The College 1st team were unfortunate to
Water Polo grows in leaps and bounds miss out being in the national Top 10, coming
and has consistently been in National in at 13th. That said, the side won the Pretoria
Top 10. Six boys represented the league for the 2nd consecutive year. Ten
province. players represented Northerns U18, 7 in the
“A” side and 3 in the “B”.

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COMMUNITY RUGBY GOLF
CONSISTENCY HoS 2013 Jason Jenkins has played Dylan Frittelli Class of ’08 and Richard
COMMUNICATION for the Blue Bulls this season and Sterne Class of ’95 are still making their
has his Junior Springbok blazer. He names on Golf courses around the world.
James Hart du Preez is up there amongst
and Jade Stiglingh Class of ‘ 11 are both the top amateurs too.
in the Blue Bulls Super 15 squad for 2016, The 2015 Golf side won 90% of their matches
whilst Bongi Mbonambi, Class of ‘09 will and had 3 Provincial representatives.
continue to play for the Stormers. TENNIS AND SQUASH
Abongile Nkwontana Class of ’13 has also Although still regarded as minor sports,
played alongside Jason in the Blue Bulls. Tennis, under the guidance of Dave
Michael Kumbirai Class of ‘14 who is Mukhari Class of ’96, continues to thrive as
studying Finance and Accounting at UCT does Squash with the U19A ream finishing
was named as the Western Province U19 2nd in the A league. Four squash players
Forward of the Year made Provincial sides in their respective
Leroy Afrika Class of ’11 was selected for age groups.
the SA Rugby 7s and represented Western SOCCER
Province. Mr Rob Campbell-Atkins is still Mr
Exciting news at the time of going to press Football, ably assisted by a couple of other
is that we have our first Rugby Scholarship. coaches. Needless to say Soccer is fast
A resume of the new Director of Rugby becoming one of our most popular sports.
is at the end of the newsletter. ATHLETICS
BASKETBALL The Athletics Club has grown tremendously
Victor Fouda remains as the Coach. A tour in the past few years, with a number of
to America in 2015 was a huge learning boys gaining first places in their individual
experience for all. There were 4 Provincial events at Inter-High.
players and Gauteng went on to win the Goldblatt Bounds is still a regular event on
Inter-Provincial Tournament the calendar.

ROWING POLO
As a small club we “box” above our James Collis and Cody Ellis ’14 are making
weight! Latest news is that our rowers their marks in Polo having received
have just won the National Boat Race! Honours here at school.
Following John Smith’s (Class of ‘08) Gold ICE HOCKEY
Medal in the 2012 Olympics, rowing has Chris Venter ’15 got Honours for National
grown in leaps and bounds and we are Representation.
now at the top of the leader board, having ROCK CLIMBING
retained the National Championship for Oliver Marx ’15 is a National Rock Climber.
10 years now. The whole of the first side
represented Gauteng and 4 boys made
the National sides in their respective age
groups. Tiago Loureiro is indeed a coach
to be reckoned with!
CYCLING
John Vlok is carrying the St Alban’s banner
in the cycling world.

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Cultural

COMMUNITY Our musicians continue to make their mark James Whitehouse ‘07 continues to work
CONSISTENCY after College. Jabulani Tsambo alias HHP, hard in the UK after qualifying from the Paul
COMMUNICATION Class of ’98, has more than made his mark McCartney School of Music in Liverpool.
in the music industry and he won Strictly Simon Strehler ‘07, Yudesh Moodliar
Come Dancing! Richard Brokensha ‘04 is ‘07 and Alec Brits ‘09 all qualified at that
teaching Music down at Bishops whilst Liverpool landmark. Gideon-Phil Meyer
working still with Alex Parker ’04 in the ‘09 and his band “December Streets” are
band “Isochronous.” Jean-Philip Grobler constantly booked for gigs. Khamveletu
‘’01 is also making it big in the USA and Nombembe, Class of ’14 is studying at
recently performed on The Jimmy Fallon Berklee College in the USA following in
Show this month - http://www.nbc.com/ the footsteps of Byron Nomdoe. Thutuka
the-tonight-show/video/st-lucia-dancing- Sibisi Class of ‘05 is composer, conductor
on-glass/2973372 and has a BMus. All over the world there
are Old Albanians singing in choirs,
playing in bands and generally sharing
their musical talents. There are more Old
Albanians making music, these are just the
ones I know of currently.
Mark Stenhouse, Director of Music ’96-
’08 and subsequently at St Anne’s College
in Natal, is re-locating to England in early
2016 (pity about the exchange rate!).

Spiritual

Father Andrew Nel left this year after
18 years service and in January we will
welcome Father Gradwell Fredericks
– his resume follows.
The Legacy Project after the 50th
Celebrations is the building of a New
Chapel. It will be on the same site
and the current Chapel will probably
become the Old Boys’ Chapel.

Community

More and more our boys are getting involved in Community Service, and Social
Development, in various ways. The President’s Award was introduced and in 2013 we had
our first Gold Award recipients – Chris Rogers, Sae-Ouk Oh and Andrij Kocur. The Blanket
Collection continues to support Tumelong Mission. And we now have a partnership with
St Augustine’s Leap School in Ga-Rankuwa.

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Hatch, Match & Despatch

The College has proved to be fertile ground with 5 births in 2015 alone
to resident staff members!

COMMUNITY Engagements and Marriages have been on had passed away and we held a Memorial
CONSISTENCY the cards too with Bruce Williams, Roan Service lead by Dr John Boje and David
COMMUNICATION Poole, Matthew Arnold, Bryan Betton, Swanepoel. Then, tragically, in the space
De Reuck Janse van Rensburg, Lumardt of 3 days, Peter Boardman, Class of ‘78
Groeneveld, Louis Ras, Richard Brokensha, and Nicholas Kenneth-Watts,Class of ’00
Brendan Tshoshane and Shaun le Feuvre lost their lives in motorbike accidents. And
all tying the knot, whilst Karl Buchholtz, in this past few days I received the news
Jan Dawid Roodt, Ludger Peters, Russell of the tragic deaths of Heather MacRobert
Venter, Chriestoff Jansen, Gideon-Phil (many of you will remember her from your
Meyer, Stuart Williams, Mark Trollop, Dean WHPS days) and her son Stuart in a terrible
Ackhurst and Hylton Edey all got down on road accident. Haig, Class of ’91 received
one knee! the news from Dullstrom on Friday 11
Sadly, there have been a number of December. News that Jurgen Slabber,
unexpected and tragic deaths reported a talented young man who would have
too. Father John Burrell who visited us in matriculated in 2017, had lost his fight for
February passed away suddenly in May life after a jet ski accident at the beginning
and only 4 days later Glen Greenway also of the December holidays, rocked the
passed. Peter Koopman, Class of ’82, passed whole school community.
mid year. Then I heard from Colin Pearson,
in London, to tell me that his mother, Eve, And as in any community the circle of life
continues to turn.

SOMETHING DIFFERENT
JOHN BARCLAY Class of ’04 writes:
I wanted to share my story about starting a new and exciting safari business.I started
a luxury safari business, www.barclaystenner.com operating high end mobile
camping in Botswana towards the end of last year. We use traditional 1940’s British
camping furniture to replicate the safaris my family operated earlier in the 20th century.
This year we received a strange call, asking if we could outfit for a filming crew, which
of course we could and next thing we knew we were working on Taylor Swift’s latest
music video – Wildest Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdneKLhsWOQ.
The video already has over a quarter billion views!

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COMMUNITY Saturday 5 March OAC and 200 Club Dinner
CONSISTENCY June/July Old Boys’ Winter Sports
COMMUNICATION Saturday 17 September 30th Reunion
Friday 23 September Old Albanian Golf Day
Friday 30 September 40th Homecoming
Friday 14 October 50th Reunion for Classes 1966-70

Reunions

In 2015, we only managed to have the Class of ’95 and the Class of ’05. Communication
was poor on our side so it was decided that we would postpone Class of ’85 and ’75 until
this year. Those dates have been published. The Class of ’05 had a huge turnout at the
Wingate Country Club and the Class of ’95 equally so in J’burg.

Class of 1995

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Class of 2005 The new arrangement for big Reunions
is that this year 2016 the Classes of
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October. The 30 years Reunion will
be on September 17th and the 40th
Homecoming on September 30th. In
between that on the 23rd September
we will be holding the Old Albanian
Golf Day at Wingate Country Club, so if
you are thinking of coming to either of
those reunions you could fit in a round
of golf too!

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Old Albanian Summer Sports

COMMUNITY WATER POLO The College team won 12-8.
CONSISTENCY BASKETBALL An incredibly tightly fought game resulted in the College team
COMMUNICATION CRICKET 2ND XI winning 46-45!
St Alban’s College 2nd team 176 for 7 – Old Boys all out for 175.
CRICKET 1ST XI College won by 3 wickets.
Old Boys 315 all out (Estiaan Kriek 71, Rowan Poole 44,
Neil Mugabe 44) - St Alban’s College 1st team 191 all out.
Old Boys take the game!

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Student Leadership Team – 2016

NEW BEGINNINGS

The new Leadership Team for 2016 follows. You will note what a
wide variety of schools are featured.

NAME SCHOOL OF ORIGIN
Head of School Luke Rosenberg Dainfern College

Deputy Heads Tshedza Magugumela (Spirit) Woodhill College
of School Josh van Heerden (Sport) WHPS
Alec Hugo (Academic) Ridgeway Independent School

Heads of House Knoll House Trent James Dainfern College
Knapp-Fisher House Brandon Booysen Cornwall Hill College
MacRobert House Nishan Pillay WHPS
Ochse House Michael Ndiwalana Selly Park Convent
De Beer House Bradley van der Merwe Cornwall Hill College
Murray House Chris Stevenson Cornwall Hill College

Deputy Heads Knoll House Sean Mataruka* Cornwall Hill College
of House Knapp-Fisher House Bjorn Ter Haar Highbury Prep
MacRobert House Hugh Williamson WHPS
Ochse House Sheldon Frost Northside Primary, Gaborone
De Beer House Toni Rossouw St Paulus Primary
Murray House Marno van der Westhuizen* St Paulus Primary

(* denotes House Prefect)

College Prefects Academic Support Sunghyun Park St Paulus Primary
Cultural (Arts) Simphiwe McCarthy Grayston Primary
Public Relations Bjorn Ter Haar Highbury Prep
Speaker of Parliament Paul Teitge/others TBCSport Woodhill College

Portfolio Heads Cultural (Music) Marcello Leita Woodhill College
Social Development Daniel de Koning/others TBC Waterford Kambuhle
Head Server Calvin Lazarus St Peter’s Boys Prep

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COMMUNITY 50th Celebrations Book
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COMMUNICATION This book is chiefly authored by Bruce Pinnock and it reflects Bruce’s
philosophy that schools are all about people and the bonds between people.
This is a book of stories and it also strives to place our school’s development in
the context of its times. It isn’t intended to be a scholarly book,
but rather a book into which one can dip, in order to gain
an insight into the people who have built and developed
the College.

Every Journey has a Story is our way of collecting the
stories, the key events and the trends that have created
what we know today as ‘The College’. In conjunction with
John Boje’s excellent Something to be Told, published in 1997,
the sometimes precarious, but always courageous history of St Alban’s
College over the course of the first half-century of its existence, has
been comprehensively told.

To order a copy of Every Journey has a Story
contact Sue Daffon – [email protected]

Final request

Please share your news with us – we welcome all contributions.

Sue Daffon • 083 459 8639 • [email protected]

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COMMUNITY Resumes Since 2006, he has served in a Parish of Hout Bay,
CONSISTENCY been Rector of St Andrew’s Parish in Steenberg,
COMMUNICATION REV GRADWELL FREDERICKS Chaplain of the Church Mens’ Society, and
was Rector of All Saints in Landsdowne prior
Our new Chaplain is REV GRADWELL to moving to Pretoria recently. He holds a BA
FREDERICKS. Born in Wellington in the (Hons) from the University of the Western
Western Cape, he worked in the commercial Cape and is currently completing a Masters in
world for over a decade before taking the Theology at the same institution. Earlier this
decision to study for the ministry. He then year, Fr Gradwell was appointed Fellowship of
took up full-time study at the College of the Vocation Warden and Church History Tutor for
Transfiguration in Grahamstown. all theological students in the Diocese of Cape
Town.
Gradwell describes himself: “I am a traditional
Anglican, practise contemplative spirituality
but am open to the diversity of Anglican
worship and spirituality. I love to be creative
with worship and to develop liturgies and this
will give me and the boys an opportunity to
give expression of our Christian faith in a fun,
structured, orderly and divine manner.”

KENNEDY TSIMBA After a three-season stint with the Bulls from
2005-7, Kennedy returned to Bloemfontein
KENNEDY TSIMBA, a World Rugby IRB Hall and saw out his professional career with the
of Famer, and one of the finest rugby players Free State Cheetahs. It was at this stage that
to come out of Zimbabwe, has been appointed he began to move into coaching. In 2010-11,
to the position of Director of Rugby here at St he was Technical Advisor, Attack Coach and
Alban’s College, with effect from 1 January Kicking Coach for the Super Rugby Cheetahs
2016. squad.
Kennedy made his mark on international In 2012, Kennedy founded Rugby Without
rugby as a young player with Zimbabwe. He Borders, a rugby development programme
turned out for English Club Bath Rugby for two based in Rustenburg. He also took up the
seasons before moving to South Africa in 2000 position of 1st Team Coach, Academy Manager,
where he was a distinguished first-class rugby and Elite Player Performance Manager. Under
player, representing the Free State Cheetahs his leadership, the Impala Rugby Club won the
and the Blue Bulls. Cell C Community Cup (which replaced the
Kennedy’s skills and speed made him one of National Club Championships) in 2014 and
the most exciting players in world rugby and were runners up in 2015.
he still holds the record for the fastest to 1000 Kennedy holds an IRB Rugby Level 2 Coaching
first-class rugby points scored in South Africa, qualification and a Diploma in Sports
achieved in 2005. He won the SARU Player of Management. He was inducted into the IRB
the Year award on four occasions. Rugby Hall of Fame in 2012. He has his own
rugby show on SABC and was the main anchor
of the SABC World Cup coverage this year. He
will continue with his TV work.
Kennedy is excited to be joining the College
and is particularly excited by the role that
St Alban’s intends to play in rugby development
and transformation in the Tshwane region.
Kennedy will also work closely with our
Director of Sport, Craig Hoyer, in launching
a new rugby development and bursary
programme at the College.

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