Odette Robyn looks content as she sits down in the head nurse’s office at Geluksoord, a retirement home in Stellenbosch, to talk about how her life has changed over the last two years following a chance encounter with a Bergzicht alumnus she only knows as Beulah. “I remember sitting in church one day and a
“I always assumed I would end up like my father. He struggled with alcoholism for many years,” says Cherelene Newman (20), a commis chef at Equus Dine, one of the Western Cape’s “premier dining destinations” at Cavalli Estate. It’s hard to believe that this is the future she envisioned for herself when you listen to
Graduate Ntombomzi Mdandalaza reflects on her days as a student at Bergzicht Training and what she learnt there more than two decades ago Ntombomzi Mdandalaza, a domestic assistant who has managed the household of a busy couple in Stellenbosch for the last year, is one of the first students to have enrolled at Bergzicht Training
If you had met Wesley Smith last year, you would have been forgiven for mistaking him as yet another young man focused only on partying and having a good time. Today, 21-year-old Smith from Idas Valley in Stellenbosch has changed his life around and works as a first assistant chef at the Wine Lounge of
When Jesika Jones from Vlottenburg finished her Educare course at Bergzicht Training in 2009, she turned her own home into one of the first crèche and day care centres in her community. “Before I started studying at Bergzicht many of the parents in my community used to ask me if I could take care of
Bergzicht Training alumnus and Muratie chef Marco Williams, 28, was the guest speaker at a recent canapé brunch event prepared by 14 students who completed seven weeks of the non- governmental organisation’s 10-week City & Guilds’ Professional Cooking and Food and Beverage Service Programme. Bergzicht helps poor, unskilled, semi-skilled and unemployed persons in the Western
In 1999, after completing a BA Honours in Human Ecology at the University of the Western Cape, Bergzicht Training’s newly appointed Training Manager, Ms Monica Lekay, would complete an internship at this non-governmental organisation (NGO) that would inspire her to spend most of her working years building a career in this sector. She would return
In 1975, just as political unrest was breaking out on the campus of the University of the Western Cape in Bellville, young cricketer Howard Bergins (photo) got the opportunity of a life-time to travel to England and pursue his dream of becoming a professional cricketer on foreign soil. With South Africa banned from the international
In 1996, Ms Carol Newman (photo) left a career as a primary school teacher after spending 25 years working as an educator. This decision, fuelled by looming retrenchments that would see a younger teacher with a family and a newly bought home lose his job over hers, is a testament to the kind of teacher,
Thanks to a generous donation from the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HFS), Bergizcht Training – a non-governmental organisation situated in the Western Cape and focused on skills development – is now able to offer its beneficiaries access to an educational environment that is more conducive to optimal learning. The HSF is a non-profit organisation based in
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