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Author: Lynne Rippenaar-Moses
Published: 19/05/2021
Two postgraduate students from Stellenbosch University (SU) recently made history by being part of the first-ever South African team to win the French inter-university debate tournament hosted by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophone (AUF). The three-member beat the competing team from the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas in Mauritius, which consisted entirely out of mother-tongue speakers.
The team that took part in the 7
th Inter-University Debate Tournament in French (TIUD7) came about through the collaborative efforts of the French departments from SU and the University of Cape Town (UCT) . Mr Jaco du Plooy, a lecturer and MA student from the Modern Foreign Languages Department in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at SU, bore team leadership responsibilities. Joining him were honours students in French, Ms Willow-Ruby van der Berg (US) and Ms Mia Todd (UCT).