South African Council for English Education
The South African Council for English Education (SACEE) is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of the English Language in South Africa.
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The council
Founded in 1955, it aims to maintain, promote and encourage education through the medium of English and to improve the standards of written and spoken English in South Africa.
SACEE has eight active branches around the country – Bloemfontein, Border, Eastern Cape, Johannesburg, Mid-Vaal, Polokwane, Pretoria and Western Cape. The branches are run by volunteers. The individual branches organise many competitions, events and ‘outreach’ programmes within their own particular areas and these include such activities as creative writing competitions, spelling competitions, forum discussions. debating and the provision of readers in a number of Primary Schools.
Relevant to this encylopaedia are the SACEE One-act Play Festivals run by various branches since 1975.
Among other, more national, projects undertaken by the Council are:
English Alive
This is annual anthology of writing from high schools and secondary colleges in southern Africa (i.e. Grades 8–12). The first edition was published in 1967, and it has been published every year since then.
Approximately 70 pieces of poetry and prose of all sorts and about anything are selected for publication each year. Brief comments on the pieces are offered by the editor. However, please note that English Alive is not a competition: there are no cups or prizes handed out for "the best" pieces of writing. Publication is the acknowledgement of writing of quality.
See: https://sacee.org.za/projects/english-alive/
The De Beers English Olympiad
This is an annual literary competition for learners in high schools and colleges - run as a joint project between SACEE and the Grahamstown Foundation since 1976.
The World Schools Debating Leagues
In which the Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Polokwane branches participate in debating competitions.
Sources
Sydney Paul Gosher. 1988. A Historical and Critical Survey of the South African One-act Play Written in English. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Pretoria: University of South Africa.
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