HANNELIEZE PERRIES, the top HCET hospitality student for 2015, has won a bursary enabling her to attend a Chef’s course at the Steyn’s Culinary School in Pretoria. The bursary is jointly funded by the HCET and Steyn’s Culinary School. The course last for six months, and is due to end in November 2016. From December…
At the end of April 2016, the HCET Hospitality School held a graduation ceremony at the Colesberg Golf Club for the class of 2015. Eighteen students graduated, and received City & Guilds certificates. The ceremony was attended by HCET trustees, students, and family members. The catering was undertaken by the student intake for 2016.
THE HCET has begun to offer computer training at its hospitality training centre in Colesberg. The course is affiliated with Skillwise Computer Training, which provides simulation-based computer training for members of previously disadvangated communities in multiple learning centres across South Africa. While still being adapted to local circumstances, the HCET course lasts for about three…
Anthonique Plaatjies, an HCET graduate, has joined the Hantam staff as an ECD intern. She is working in Lettie Martins’s class for three- and four-year-olds. She is also studying for her NQF Level 4 ECD diploma with the Custoda Trust in Delportshoop. Anthonique, who comes from Lowryville in Colesberg, completed Grade 9 at Umthombo Wolwazi…
THE HCET has received a generous donation from the National Lotteries Commission. It will be spent on the ECD Programme, the Effective Parenting Programme, and the Youth Development Programme. Our heartfelt thanks to the National Lotteries Commission for this donation, which will help us maintain and improve these key HCET programmes in 2016-20157.
ON 27 October 2016, SizweAfrica will hold a Charity Golf Day on behalf of the HCET at the Steyn City Golf Club in Johannesburg. The event will be a 4-Ball Alliance. Participation will cost R12 000 per four-ball. This will include lunch, dinner, drinks, snacks, gift bags, as well as prizes and cart hire. A well-known…
Following the retirement of Niekie Pretorius, Marié Botha has been appointed as principal of Umthombo Wolwazi Farm School. She has been on the staff since 2001.
MORE THAN 250 parents and children attended a Family Fun Day held at the HCET complex on 5 September 2015. Organised by the Trust’s FASD field workers, Hanna Mphemba, Roos Pergoo, Lettie Martins, Lolly van der Ranse and Nandi Seekoei, it was held to mark world FASD Day, and to reinforce the message that drinking…
ON 28 August 2015, another three-day TLC camp was held for a junior group of HCET learners at Poplar Grove Farm. These camps are held for learners experiencing emotional difficulties, often due to challenging circumstances at home. They are provided with various forms of support and counselling, including a range of focused leisure activities. The…
On 2 July 2015, Roos Pergoo and Hanna Phemba received their National Professional Diplomas in Education (Distance Learning) at a graduation ceremony at Free State University. They were accompanied by their partners and the facilitator of the HCET bursary programme, Estelle Jacobs. This was a great day for the HCET, as both Hanna and Roos…