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Siyabonga Nkonyane, Raphael Nunguiane, and conductor, Sipho Khumalo.
Award-winning UFS Qwaqwa Campus Chorale’s Siyabonga Nkonyane, Raphael Nunguiane, and conductor, Sipho Khumalo.
The past few months have been good for the UFS Qwaqwa Campus Chorale, as they managed to dazzle their competitors across the length and breadth of South Africa. 
“Our performances have improved quite a lot over the past two years; hence we can safely say that we can now compete with the best in the choir music fraternity,” said Siyabonga Nkonyane, a tenor-soloist conductor.

Notable performances

“We have become a permanent feature in the top-three choirs of all the competitions we have entered so far, and we can only improve from here. We dazzled the audiences during the Old Mutual National Choir Festival in Bloemfontein last year, where we won a trophy and a cash prize of R10 000. We continued our good performance during the Lengau Choral Music Association (LECMA) festival in Bethlehem in June this year, where we were placed third in the large category and won R25 000. It was the first time we ever competed in this category,” he said. 

Nkonyane further revealed that the choir took part in the South African Tertiary Institution Choral Association (SATICA) festival in July, where they were placed in second spot in the ‘Own Choice’ category. “It was tough in Port Elizabeth, as all the universities and colleges brought their best choristers to the competition. However, with the dedication of our conductor, Sipho Khumalo, and the support of the Campus Management, we managed to do the best we could.”

The immediate future

The choir will be competing in the 2019 Old Mutual National Choir Festival, which is to be hosted yet again in Bloemfontein from 25 to 26 October.

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Arts Festival Rally promises to be great fun
2009-05-20

The annual Amazing Rainbow Rally, presented by the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and UFS Marketing, will take place on Friday, 17 July 2009 during the Volksblad Arts Festival on the Main Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein.

This year all the checkpoints will be on the campus and around the Arts Festival grounds. Corporate companies in Bloemfontein and departments at the UFS may still enter teams and checkpoints.

The closing date for entering teams is 26 June 2009. A team consists of two team members who must work together to complete a route with various checkpoints. The team, who finishes first after having successfully completed all the tasks, is the winner. Last year, Dr I Babst en Dr L Solomon from the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health were the winners of the Rally.

The closing date for entering a checkpoint is 17 June 2009. Teams must complete tasks at every checkpoint before proceeding to the next checkpoint. The company sponsoring the checkpoint will also be responsible for handling the activity at the checkpoint.

The “Arts Festival” Rally promises to challenge teams physically, mentally and even artistically. Festival goers will also have the opportunity to see what teams get up to and how their favourite team is doing.

The Rally will be presented for the fifth time in 2009. The main goal of this year’s Rally is to raise funds for the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health’s “Beds of Hope Campaign”. This campaign seeks to increase the number of intensive care beds in the paediatric and neonatal wards. Currently around 250 children and babies in central South Africa cannot receive the life-saving care they need because of a lack of facilities.

For more information and entry forms, contact Ms Adéle van Aswegen at 051 401 3535 or e-mail to vanasweg.stg@ufs.ac.za . You can also visit our website at http://bedsofhope.ufs.ac.za  


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