September 2012 Teacher.Co.Za Teaching Heritage Page 5

Managing Teaching Olympic children’s learners medalist access to about makes a technology HIV Page 7 Page 18 splash Page 20 Your Guide to Education •September 2012 teacher.co.za Teaching heritage Page 5 Passionate young heritage enthusiasts at a National Heritage Council celebration in Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape. Photo: National Heritage Council 2 Career September 2012 theTeacher Promoting national identity eptember marks Heritage Month when the nation cele-brates Sits cultural wealth. South Africa has eight world heritage sites that provide a historical narrative that can be shared to inspire preservation of the nation’s culture. Our nations pride They include the Cradle of Humankind, Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans and Kromdraai, Environs, Robben Island, the Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, the uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park, the Cape Floral Region, isimangaliso / Greater St Lucia Wetland National Park, the Vredefort Dome and Richtersveld Cultural and the Botanical Landscape. Liberation struggle icons Additionally, there are liberation struggle heroes and heroines after whom national monuments or sites are named such as the Sol Plaatjie Municipality in the Northern Cape, the Nelson Mandela Museum in the Eastern Cape, Luthuli House in Gauteng, the Shaka Zulu Airport in KwaZulu-Natal, the Tshwane Municipality in Gauteng and the Steve Biko Memorial in the Eastern Cape. Inspired: Kirsten Goss has built up her own business in just a decade and now has clients across the world. Photo: Sally Shorkend Our rich heritage This provides the country with a rich heritage from which to draw and from an educational point of view it provides an Dame of design opportunity to use the month as a reminder of our rich his- tory and pointedly provide This jewellery award by Jacqui Myburgh, editor of design what I want must be paired that vision with six incredibly tal- teachers with information, Visi magazine, for which members with the responsibility of turning ented goldsmiths. simplified for the purpose of designer combines of the public voted. In June last year, that design into a profit. This is the educating learners of their her academic, wild alongside world-renowned sculptor combination required for Kirsten What are the jobs prospects? heritage. Dylan Lewis, Kirsten was invited to Goss London to thrive as a company. As with any position in the fash- This month is an opportunity and creative sides design a piece of jewellery for auc- ion or other creative industries, you to explore both human icons to pursue her craft tion at Christie’s in London. This What or who inspired you to have to work hard and, most of the and our monumental heritage. special project was organised by the pursue jewellery design? time, for little more than experience. — The Editor Thabo Mohlala Wildlands Conservation Trust to I had a huge amount of inspiration When I graduated, I went to work raise funds for rhino conservation, around me as I was growing up. I had for Erikson Beamon in London and irsten Goss is a 37-year- most particularly by satellite track- two very assertive grandmothers, there we worked hard and fast. You old jewellery designer ing. Kirsten Goss London’s 18-carat one of whom was Norwegian. She have to have endurance. The indus- and mother of two. She gold-and-white, champagne-and- loved fine Scandinavian silverware try is pretty close-knit and most peo- theTeacher lives in Durban and man- black diamond ring named Refuge and art. I also had inspiring parents ple are in it for life, so there is not a ages Kirsten Goss Lon- raised £12 000 (about R150 000). and now, I have an incredibly ambi- great deal of movement at the top. Editor: Kdon with her husband Steven. Their Goss is featured in the Mail & tious husband. I have always had two Experience is the key to success, so Phindile Xaba company has stores in London, Guardian’s Book of Women 2012. very opposing sides, one very aca- my advice would be never to snub a email: [email protected] Johannesburg, Cape Town and Dur- demic and the other quite wild and minor position. There is always the Reporter: ban. Kirsten Goss London started Please share with us what your creative. My degree also offered me possibility of carving out something Thabo Mohlala in 2002 in a shared studio space in career entails an opportunity to ignite both these more for yourself when you see an Tel: 011 250 7403 Westbourne Studios in London. My career is twofold: I am a busi- sides of myself. I studied under real opening. email: [email protected] Two years later Kirsten opened her nesswoman who runs operations masters of the craft and learned solid flagship store in Kensington and, in in four cities on two continents technical skills, which I still draw on Which institutions offer training Advertising: 2007, she moved to Durban where and I am also a dedicated jewellery today. in jewellery design? Di Willis she opened a small studio from designer. I find that being a business- Stellenbosch is the only univer- Tel: 082 467 1152 home. In 2009 she opened a state- woman involves finding a balance What subjects are required if sity that offers jewellery design. of-the-art design studio that now between managing and motivating However, there are other institu- email: [email protected] one wants to become a jewel- services all four stores as well as teams while still keeping a constant lery designer? tions such as the Cape Peninsula Cape Town ofﬁ ce: kirstengoss.com, an online platform eye on every aspect of operational You need matric exemption and University of Technology and the Olinda Wilson for international clients. In 2011 activities such as public relations, artistic ability as well as a portfolio of Durban University of Technology, Tel: 072 119 2647 she opened a store in Johannesburg marketing, product development, practical work that shows your com- which is where all Kirsten Goss email: [email protected] and last month, in collaboration sales and client relations and exhib- petence in drawing and observation. London’s goldsmiths studied. KZN ofﬁ ce: with luxury leatherwear brand Mis- iting at international shows. No one There is a total split between creative Madeline Zekkari sibaba, she launched a store in Cape task takes precedence, because every vision and the practical craft of jew- How do you relax? Tel: 082 414 6315 Town. Kirsten Goss London is an facet is a critical part in the turning ellery design, which is really techni- Running my own business is a email: [email protected] entirely in-house operation, which wheel of a business. cal. You need both. I studied all the relentless pressure. The best chance allows Kirsten to maintain creative As a jewellery designer, my chal- sciences at school. of relaxation is through a forced Subscriptions: control of all aspects of the business. lenge is more personal. I need to intervention like dragging me some- [email protected] One of Kirsten Goss London’s top inspire myself all the time and in this What do you like most about where so remote that there’s no achievements has been to win the way provide the spark, the source, your job? chance of a cellphone signal or wi-fi! the Teacher is published by M&G award for “most beautiful object in the energy that drives the brand’s I like the ability to realise the ideas Time spent with my husband and Media Ltd South Africa 2012”. Kirsten Goss core. My career involves confronting that form in my mind, the freedom to kids at our beach house on the Wild London was nominated for this the harsh reality that my freedom to be expressive and the ability to share Coast is like heaven. 3 Teachers September 2012 theTeacher A positive attitude rubs off on pupils An international opera sensation says her choir master influenced her career choice associate artist by the opera company Opera Africa which is spon- sored by the Maponya Group. Here I am in a position to study opera roles and concert programmes under the artistic director, Hein de elebogile Boikanyo (24) Villiers. is the proud recipient of the 2012 Standard Bank Where did you grow up? Young Artist Award 2012 I grew up in Mabopane, north of in music. She burst on Tshwane. Kelebogile Boikanyo. Photo: Opera Africa Kto the opera music scene through her debut performance with inter- Which schools did you attend? national South African superstar, I started school at the age of five at tenor Johan Botha, during Opera Selelo Primary School. I went on to Africa’s Opera Extravaganza in complete matric at technical and 2007. Since then, her rise has been commercial high schools in Hebron. nothing short of meteoric. Born in Pretoria, this soprano Who was your favourite teacher singer studied vocal arts at Tshwane and why? University of Technology. She was At school, Mr Mokgethi, our choir impressive as the voice of the high master, showed faith in me. I enjoyed priestess in Verdi’s Aïda and sub- singing in his choir and also liked his sequently made her international enthusiasm for music. debut as Queen Silomo in Opera This inspired me to enter the Africa’s production of the Zulu opera Tirisano Schools Choral Eisteddfod, Princess Magogo at Den Norske where I won the top prize. Opera in Oslo in Norway. Some of her other roles include Are you still in contact with Echo in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne him? auf Naxos at the Royal Opera de Yes, I am still in contact with him. Wallonie in Liège, Belgium, Musetta We keep in touch telephonically.

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