The 22nd Bruce Piper Award Monologue Competition was held at St Anne's Diocesan College on Satuday, 25 October 2025.
Our adjudicators were Dr Mervyn McMurtry and Mrs Dawn Haynes
19 learners from 7 SADASA member schools took part in the competition. Participating schools:-
St Anne's Diocesan College, Grosvenor Girls' High, Dundee High, King Edward High, Port Shepstone High, Wembley College, Waterfall College
Congratulations to the winner of the competition, Shannon Turner from St Anne's Diocesan College and Runner-up, Gotshego Sachane from St Anne's Diocesan College
SADASA held its first ever Primary inter-school Showcase at Westville Senior Primary School on Saturday, 18 October 2025.
172 participants from 48 SADASA member schools took part.
The following schools took part:-
Kingsword Academy, St Raphael's, Atholl-Heights P, Durban Girls' College, Hillcrest Primary, St Mary's DSG, Highbury Preparatory, Rosehill Primary, Thomas More College, Tree Tops School, Crawford La Lucia, Crawford North Coast, Atholton Primary, Glenmore Primary, Focused School, Our Lady of Fatima Convent, Chelsea Preparatory, D.P.H.S. Winston Park Primary, Kainon School, Maris Stella, CURRO HCA, Gordon Road Girls' School, Westville Senior Primary, The Amojee Academy, St Henry's Marist College, Athlone Primary, Howick Preparatory, Cowan House, Wembley College, Northland School, The Wykeham Collegiate, Westbury Preparatory, Monument Primary, King Edward High, Umhlali Preparatory, Holy Childhood Convent, Berg Street Primary, Izotsha Primary, Bergview C, Eden College, Eden Village Preparatory, North Coast Primary, Nottingham Road Primary, Uelzen Primary, Eshowe Junior School
SADASA's Chairman, Dr Mervyn McMurtry's, engaging report in 2025 examines our changing, devloping world and discusses the importance of keeping the Arts and Humanity Studies in the education of young people. The development of a person's powers to visualise and their capacity of origninal thought and for relating themselves through personal feelings to their environment, is often blocked during adolescent years. He reiterates a belief that Speech and Drama is a basic tool in the development of all children's powers of thought, imagination and communication.