Talk of the Town

Stenden South Africa

Latest news & developments

Stenden celebrates outreach milestone

A recent graduation at Stenden South Africa marked more than 5000 graduates from Stenden’s Community Computer Literacy Course hosted at the Robert Veenstra Entrepreneurship Centre in Nemato. Established in 2011, the centre has been a…

Stenden students mix things up… in a good way!

Second-year Stenden South Africa students recently attended a cocktail-making masterclass at the MyPond Hotel, courtesy of Fitch & Leedes. The event brought in a seasoned mixologist from Cape Town, Jody Francis, who shared his expertise…

Emergency teams put on display to teach school pupils

The Emergency awareness event, held at Port Alfred School Thursday October 17 brought together various emergency service workers to educate foundation phase pupils (grades 1-3) on essential safety tips and precautions. The attendees…

WE DID IT: Stenden South Africa graduates toss their mortar boards in celebration after receiving their degrees at a graduation ceremony at the Royal St Andrews Hotel last Friday evening Picture: JON HOUZET

Class of 2019 and 2020 together at Stenden graduation

Stenden South Africa held a combined graduation ceremony for the classes of 2019 and 2020 at the Royal St Andrews Hotel on October 22 to make up for the lack of a such a function last year. There were 30 hospitality management graduates…

SPOILT FOR CHOICE: The mains was a buffet including a BBQ chicken, bacon and pineapple kebab, a pulled pork slider and a mini vegetable slider, baked dorado in banana leaf, and Hawaiian flat bread Picture: JON HOUZET

Stenden students put on Hawaiian themed dinner

Stenden South Africa third year hospitality students organised a Hawaiian themed dinner at MyPond Hotel last Friday night. They pulled out all the stops with a glass of punch to welcome patrons and placing garlands around their necks,…

PROUD GRADUATES: The group of young golfers with coach Colin Mavuso, back centre, and Stenden South Africa executive dean Dr Wouter Hensens, back right

Young golfers graduate from Stenden’s Robert Veenstra Entrepreneurship Centre computer course

Stenden South Africa’s flagship Community Empowerment project, the Robert Veenstra Entrepreneurship Centre, recently hosted an exceptionally special graduation at MyPond Hotel. The reason this was different to past graduations is that…

CELEBRATING WITH LOVED ONES: Supporting Andrew Burger, second from left, at his graduation were his girlfriend Christie Smit, and Andrew’s parents Carl and Caroline Burger Picture: JON HOUZET

Graduation for disaster management students

Ten disaster management students from Stenden South Africa were conferred their degrees at a graduation ceremony at My Pond Hotel last Friday night. In his address, Stenden executive dean Dr Wouter Hensens said the graduates were the…

STRONG COMPETITION: Taking third place at the Talk of the Town / Stenden South African fundraising quiz were the Wikipedias, from left, Pieter Boshoff, Hein Claassen, Carla Boshoff and Liana Haman Picture: JON HOUZET

Quiz raises R5,000 for PA Soup Kitchen

Another successful Talk of the Town / Stenden South African Quiz last week raised more than R5,000 for the Port Alfred Soup Kitchen. The quarterly quizzes, held at MyPond Hotel, were absent for much of last year because of the Covid…

Video

Fundraising by Stenden students raises R40,000 for PA Soup Kitchen

Representatives from Stenden South Africa handed over a cheque for R40,000 to the Port Alfred Soup Kitchen today, to go towards their work of feeding the hungry. Money was raised through various projects by the Universities Fighting World…

Video

Police set up temporary charge office at Stenden campus

Residents thought police were responding to a crime scene at the Stenden South Africa campus on the corner of Muller Drive and Grand Street on Thursday afternoon. Talk of the Town attended and discovered it was the site of the recently…

AFTER SCHOOL: The Robert Veenstra Centre, an initiative of Stenden South Africa, is where lots of local children go to use the computer facilities Picture: ROB KNOWLES

Stenden shares with the community

Stenden South Africa, one of the top hospitality schools in the country, is always keen to assist the local community. Recently Stenden donated computers to the hub at its Robert Veenstra Centre in Nemato. Here children and adults use the…

New students encouraged at Stenden academic opening

New students were welcomed to Stenden South Africa with the official academic opening and an awards ceremony taking place at the Royal St Andrews Hotel recently. SRC president Sihle Eyles said 2019 had not been an easy year, with load…

Video

Stenden academic opening at Royal St Andrews Hotel

Prizes were handed out to top achievers in the hospitality management and disaster management schools of Stenden South Africa at the opening of the academic year held at Royal St Andrews Hotel on Monday night. Students also received a…

Video

Stenden graduation at Royal St Andrews

The entry procession for Stenden South Africa’s 2019 graduation, held at the Royal St Andrews Hotel last Friday night. Thirty-seven graduates were conferred their bachelor of commerce in hospitality management, and six received their…

Stenden hold academic opening and awards ceremony

It was a great night for students and their families at the Royal St Andrews Hotel on Monday when Stenden South Africa held its academic opening as well as its awards ceremony. This is the first time the institution has held both events…