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Various learners from Veritas College show off their skills.

July 1, 2015

Anna Robertson Less than a minute

Taryn de Klerk is the winner of the U/15 50m butterfly at the inter-high swimming event held recently.

Ntsako Nkomane, Eleanor Lea and Natasha Mogane from Veritas College have been selected to be members of the Regional Ekurhuleni Children’s Choir. They will take part in two international choir competitions in Slovakia and the Czech Republic in December.

Grade 11 and 12 learners from Veritas College shared gave their 67 minutes to the community on July 15 while cleaning up the Springs Taxi Rank.

Veritas College hosted Princethorpe College from England in a day of friendly fixtures. The day started out with the hockey girls and boys taking on the Pommies at the St Benedicts Astro. While the British girls gave our team a bit of a lesson winning 8-0, the hockey boys put up a good fight and were actually unlucky to lose 2-1. It was then the chance of the netball girls, in a very good game the Brits again came out ontop winning 12-8. The final game of the day was the rugby match played on our new rugby field.

The Veritas College 1st team hockey boys finished top of the Eastern Gauteng Promotion League standings after being undefeated in their seven league games , they then went on to win their semi-final match but unfortunately lost their first match of the year in the final.

Marco Ricchi was selected to play for Eastern Gauteng in his relevant age group in the recent South African Inter-Provincial Squash tournament held recently.

Daniela Venturi and Fabio Pellizzon are the head leaders for Veritas College.

Daniela Venturi and Fabio Pellizzon are Veritas College's head leaders. — Daniela Venturi and Fabio Pellizzon are Veritas College’s head leaders.

Allyssa Jardim, Diane Bada, Justin Brudvig, Amy Brits, Ronin Burns, Zinhle Mnguni, Haneef Mahomed and Grace Holdt are executive leaders for Veritas College.

Keagen Bilson and Paul Chappel made the Eastern Gauteng U/18 A Hockey team, they represented their province at the Inter-Provincial tournament in Cape Town from July 1 to 6 while Thomas made the U/16 B team that played the IPT in Johannesburg during the same time.

Mr Gift Xaba, teacher and sports coach at Veritas Preparatory this year has coached the Eastern Gauteng women's cricket team and women's cricket academy, the Eastern Gauteng U/16 and U/19 girl's cricket academy and the Gambia U/19 national cricket team ICC/Africa Division 3. — Mr Gift Xaba, teacher and sports coach at Veritas Preparatory this year has coached the Eastern Gauteng women’s cricket team and women’s cricket academy, the Eastern Gauteng U/16 and U/19 girl’s cricket academy and the Gambia U/19 national cricket team ICC/Africa Division 3.

Veritas Preparatory students Luke Fraser, Sheldon Watt and Rogan Read have been selected for the Eastern Gauteng U/12 B action cricket team. Benjamin Scott has been selected for the Eastern Gauteng U/12 A action cricket team.

Veritas Preparatory student Damian Carrazon has been selected for the East Rand U/13 soccer team.

Sheldon Watt (left) and Eujaan Botha from Veritas Preparatory have been selected for the Eastern Gauteng U/12 B and A hockey teams respectively. Sen with them is Dr David Payaniadi who has been selected as coach of the Eastern Gauteng U/12 B hockey team as well as the manager of the U/18 team.

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July 1, 2015

Anna Robertson Less than a minute

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