Though funding shortages dashed the hopes of two Linkside High School pupils selected to compete in the Commonwealth Judo Championships in Malta last week, they are forging ahead, with their sights now set on the Africa Games in Cameroon in July.
Two Linkside High School teachers will be spreading cheer through music with their inaugural Linkside Community Christmas concert on Friday. Well-known organist Antonio Lawack and mezzo-soprano Lucretia Sikwebu will host the event at the Trinity Baptist Church in Cape Road. Lawack and Sikwebu said bringing the concert to life in honour of the school and the greater community had been a team effort.
Three young women and a teenager from the northern areas have decided to use their experience of participating in an international showcase to create opportunities for other talented youngsters from the area.
Juggling his duties as head boy of Linkside High School and being junior city council mayor was quite the balancing act for Gerard Stuurman, of Heath Park, but he still managed to obtain six distinctions in the 2021 matric exams.