Advancing Knowledge NPC 2024 Science Club Competition in the Cape winelands :
Spectacular science experiments, hair-raising demonstrations and awe-inspiring science shows
The annual science club competition by Advancing Knowledge Non-Profit Company (AK NPC) and Cape Winelands Education District was held on Thursday 19 September 2024. A total of 20 science clubs represented their schools consisting of 10 primary and 10 high schools. The competition was celebrating its 20th year since its establishment in 2004 and was hosted in the Main Hall of the Cape Winelands Education District, the same venue where the first competition was held.
The partnership between the science subject advisors of the Cape Winelands Education District and members of Advancing Knowledge NPC has been maintained and strengthened over the years. A number of participants from the early years of the science club competitions are now science teachers at the schools and proudly reflected and narrated their experiences to learners and fellow teachers.
At each school the science clubs are guided and championed by passionate science teachers and their principals who go the extra mile to ensure that teachers attend the AK NPC’s training offered for science club practitioners and that learners participate in the internal school science club programme leading to the annual AK NPC science competition. These efforts are directed at advancing learners’ interest, enthusiasm and willingness to want to learn the gateway subjects of science and mathematics. The competition was supported by Garden Cities Archway Foundation in their partnership with AK NPC.
At the Science Club Competition, learners from each science club took great pride in demonstrating their science experiments, investigations, exhibits, presentations, designs and activities to the judges. The competition allowed a maximum of ten learners per science club a total of 10 minutes to conduct their science activities while explaining the science concepts, process, theory and principles behind each presentation with due consideration of the safety requirements.
At the opening of the event, Mr Elbie Venter of Cape Winelands did the welcoming and science subject advisor Mr Ziyaad Moerat explained how important the competition had become for the district as this was one of the ways to attract more learners to the science and mathematics stream. He encouraged learners and teachers to make use of the opportunities offered by Advancing Knowledge NPC.
More than 200 learners accompanied by their science teachers took part in the event showcasing their science knowledge, skills, and expertise to the adjudicators. The various science clubs demonstrated colourful solutions, deafening explosions, bright chemical reactions, home-made technologies and awe-inspiring activities. There were loud bangs which kept the audience alert, single and multi-coloured flames, smoke, smells and burning substances professionally explained and expertly conducted within a safe environment.
Learners encouraged by their science teachers and fellow science club members expertly conducted their experiments to ensure that successful outcomes were reached as was part of their practice routine throughout the year. It seemed that the science club representatives were determined to make the judges’ task as difficult as possible as learners delivered their well-rehearsed and prepared regiment of interesting and creative science expositions much to the delight and awe of the audience.
Both high schools and primary schools encouraged and cheered each other and showed great interest when witnessing experiments and activities that they thought were interesting. In this way experimental techniques, skills and know-how were shared amongst the science clubs.
At the end of the competition, Prof Shaheed Hartley thanked everyone who participated in making the day a success. Special thanks went to each of the science teachers and their 200 science club learners who prepared and worked hard to make their science contribution as successful as possible. The winning primary school was Vergesig Primary and Langeberg Secondary took the honours for the high schools – both schools were from Robertson. All participating schools were thanked for their contribution and encouraged to continue with their efforts to expand their interaction in STEM.
Organisations and corporations that want to contribute to this important initiative to support and develop science in rural schools to build a critical mass of future STEM practitioners are encouraged to make contact with the Director of AK NPC, Prof Shaheed Hartley:
shartley@skatt.co.za
083 793 0436
High court interdict bars Hlophe from taking up seat at Judicial Service Commission:
The Western Cape high court on Friday granted an interim interdict barring John Hlophe, the disgraced former judge president in the division and the present parliamentary leader of the uMkhonto weSizwe party, from participating in sittings of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).
The order was granted pending the court’s decision on three applications asking that the National Assembly’s decision in July to appoint to the commission be set aside as irrational and unlawful in light of his impeachment for gross misconduct.
Hlophe was removed from the bench in March after a disciplinary process spanning almost 16 years, sparked by his attempts to sway constitutional court judges in favour of Jacob Zuma in cases related to the arms deal corruption charges against the former president, who now leads the MK party.
The immediate effect of Friday’s decision is that Hlophe will not participate in JSC interviews early next month where the commission will consider candidates for appointment to the country’s supreme court of appeal and several high court divisions, including the Western Cape.
A full bench agreed with the applicants in the case that there was a risk that Hlophe’s presence could compromise the integrity of the interviews, and found that on the face of it, they had made out a strong case to succeed in their review of the decision to appoint him to the JSC.
The Democratic Alliance, Freedom Under Law (FUL) and Corruption Watch all argued that the National Assembly failed to exercise its discretion in terms of section 178(1)(h) of the Constitution when it appointed Hlophe to the same body that recommended his impeachment.
FUL argued that it was apparent, from the stance adopted by both the speaker and the ANC chief whip in parliament, that the chamber failed to recognise that it had any discretion at all and simply rubber-stamped the MK party’s nomination of Hlophe to serve on the commission mandated to appoint the country’s judges.
And all three applicants argued that the appointment was incompatible with the JSC’s functions as set out in section 165(4) of the Constitution.
The court agreed on both counts.
It said the Hansard record of proceedings on 9 July made it clear that the National Assembly had simply followed a convention that it will appoint whoever a particular political party nominates to serve on the JSC.
But this convention of rubber-stamping nominations could not apply to the commission in the same manner it did representation on parliament’s portfolio committees.
“It is irrelevant in this case as the JSC is not a parliamentary committee, but a body established by the Constitution consisting of members representing different interest groups.”
The court said case law gave reason to the applicants’ argument that all organs of state – including the legislature – were enjoined by the constitution to assist the courts to protect their independence, impartiality, dignity and effectiveness.
“The appointment of Dr Hlophe to the JSC will inevitably undermine the independence, dignity and effectiveness of our courts,” it concluded.
The court was scathing of Hlophe’s submission, and that of his party, that his removal from the bench did not prevent the assembly from designating him to serve on the JSC because impeachment carried no collateral consequence.
Both had argued the applicants conflated his status as impeached judge with his present position as MP.
Impeachment, as Hlophe put it, “has nothing to do with eligibility for the NA” and does not carry any more punishment than the removal”.
But the court said this cannot hold because the JSC was not a portfolio committee but an entity established by the Constitution.
“This startling submission, based on the evidence of Dr Hlophe quoted above, is untenable.”
Unlike the other two applicants, FUL did not seek interim relief. It had pleaded that the review application was ripe for hearing and asked for a final order.
The court said FUL was correct in arguing that there was nothing to be added to the record of proceedings of the National Assembly’s sitting where Hlophe’s nomination was endorsed.
But after much consideration, it decided to postpone FUL’s application to be heard simultaneously with that of Part B of the other two applications or eventually in the constitutional court, as AfriForum has asked it for direct access to challenge the National Assembly’s decision. The three applicants in the Western Cape have asked to be joined as parties in that litigation.
However, the court said, this did not stop it from considering FUL’s submissions in deciding whether its fellow applicants had established a prima facie right, which is the first requirement for interim relief.
It added that it was satisfied that “at least a very strong prima facie case has been made out to be successful in the review applications contained in part B” of the DA and Corruption Watch’s cases.
In weighing the balance of convenience for interim relief, the court said: “this is one of the clearest of cases to grant a restraining order”.
Hlophe will not be prevented from carrying out his work as an MP.
“He may miss one or perhaps two sittings of the JSC prior to the hearing of part B of the applications.”
On the other hand, there was the risk of compromising the legitimacy of the upcoming sittings of the JSC. This, the court said, could not be undone later by review in due course.
The matter was heard by Gauteng high court judges Selby Baqwa and Colleen Collis and Free State high court judge Johannes Daffue.
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