New Beginnings...

New Beginnings    

                                                                                                                                                                I've been sitting around this life for years,
Not enough laughs and too many tears.
Trying to figure out where it all went,
These wasted years that I have spent.

Searching for something to go beyond,
Life's a stone skipping across a pond.
At the last skip, it hits with a splash,
Down the stone sinks, gone in a flash.

Pushing and pulling, it's tearing apart,
Poking and prodding an underused heart.
This dark velvet curtain that hides my soul,
Living this life has taken it's toll.

In a flash of bright light, the curtain is torn,
Tumbling down all tattered and worn.
Revealing new life, a child within,
Born free of hate, of suffering and sin.

Now my eyes see what has never been told,
Striving forth, happy, confident and bold.
Into a world that's unfamiliar but friendly,
Into this new life my spirit will send me.

Living and laughing, loving it all,
I stood myself up and answered the call.
The darkness has gone, replaced by the light,
I gave up the darkness with hardly a fight.

I've been sitting around this life for years,
With laughter aplenty and hardly a tear.
Now I can see just where it all went,
Cherish every moment of this new life I've spent.

Sameera Badroedien

Teacher of the Term (Term 2)

TEACHER of the TERM

People love him…they all want to be like him…he is…MR ANTONELS.

He is the most famous man in the school and people like him. They call him Mr A or the PE teacher, but he is Mr M. Antonels.

Mr Antonels is a qualified physical education teacher and also a Life Orientation teacher to the senior grades. His normal day-to-day jobs include teaching and taking the boys for PE, but he also runs sporting codes with Mrs van Niekerk. Well, he really is a man of many talents.

Mr A is a qualified coach. He completed all human movements studies and also  completed  coaching studies  in all human levels in sport. He is our school’s head coach for cricket and soccer, with the help of Mr Matomela and Mr Wentzel. He forms a part of the team who brought us the lovely Mini-World Games … Soccer being his main priority.

Siphosethu Sixabayi

To the Matrics of 2012

To the Matrics of 2012

It seems like yesterday that we wore over-sized dresses that almost reached our ankles. We had extremely heavy bags filled with texts books we barely even used. Yes, back then we were in Grade 8. Now our dresses have faded colour and are a few inches shorter than how they were originally purchased, and we have realized that there is something called ‘sharing text books with class mates’.

We’ve been here for four years and now this is our final year. We can all agree that the four years were definitely not easy and came with challenges, but also many joyous memories that I will eternally treasure. 

I hope as we each embark on our personal journeys that we will not forget all the values and standards taught to us by the dedicated educators of Livingstone High School. I hope that on the day we finally leave Livingstone that there be no tears of sorrow, but tears of joy; that we each would’ve achieved the goals we set for ourselves and that we make our parents proud.

This is not farewell, only just the beginning of new chapters in our lives. We are the writers, the main characters and even the editors of these books. I hope that the books we each make of our lives become best sellers...                                                      Phumeza Jwili 12T       

Livingstone Hockey

LIVINGSTONE  

 GOING FOR GOAL!


Livingstone is starting a Hockey team! The team is currently a girls’ team and judging on enthusiasm alone, it promises to blow all other league teams out of the water. With the help of Ms Thomas as supporting teacher, their chance of winning are ‘legit’.

What other teams will start to pop up? Guys, it starts with US! We need to use our own initiative to get together and make things happen! Livingstone learners want to be involved in more
sports at school. Let’s make it happen!

Livingstone High School is already big on academics. Learners would love to see Livingstone growing on the sporting side.

                                                                   -Siphosethu Sixabayi
  

Life is like Mathematics...

MATHEMATICS

   Life is like mathematics, you never get a simple equation.

   Not everything in life can be simplified.

   In life you get hit by many factors that cause you to stumble.

   The products that we make and create to make life simple end up                  destroying us.

   It may get you thinking: why is life so difficult?                                                   Why can't life be simpler?

   We group ourselves with many friends so that we may never feel like a            fraction with an unsure answer.

   We are bound by many laws and rules that make us a function.

   Without them our lives would be like an undefined number without an            answer.

   We all make errors, no one is a perfect square.

   We always try to calculate and predict the future.

    But do we know what the future holds for us?

    In life when one person is added, another is subtracted.

    It's a recurring process that can never be stopped.

    We can never learn how to live, but we can learn to enjoy life and make                 the most out of every moment.

    We all have differences that make us who we are.

    We are all special just the way we are.

Never let anyone change who you are!

    And that's what makes life natural and irrational.

  

Written by Mayford Mhlahlo

 

   *NOTE: Challenge is now open to other                                                                   departments to send in their best work!              

Hockey News - Siphosethu Sixabayi

LIVINGSTONE   GOING FOR GOAL!



Livingstone is starting a Hockey team! The team is currently a girls’ team and judging on enthusiasm alone, it promises to blow all other league teams out of the water. With the help of Ms Thomas as supporting teacher, their chance of winning are ‘legit’.

What other teams will start to pop up? Guys, it starts with US! We need to use our own initiative to get together and make things happen! Livingstone learners want to be involved in more
sports at school. Let’s make it happen!

Livingstone High School is already big on academics. Learners would love to see Livingstone growing on the sporting side.

                                                           -Siphosethu Sixabayi
 

Sports news from the Newspaper Club's star reporter,Siphosethu Sixabayi

Reds come to Durbs

We wait in anticipation for the Vodacom Challenge where Manchester United will come to South Africa to play matches with the two Soweto rivals, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs . Manchester United has been confirmed to play in Durban at the most respected world cup venue, the Moses Mabida stadium.

On the 18th July 2012, Durban will turn green and red, where the Reds will play the KwaZulu Natal-based team, Amazulu Football Club. Usuthu and the Red Devil management teams have been exchanging phone calls in preparation for this match. Manchester United will play Amazulu and then return to Manchester to prepare for their upcoming match where they will have to defend their title. The Natal-based team tried to be part of the PSL (Premier Soccer League) final, but they couldn't make it because they had coaching problems this seasons.

Exotic as ever, Durban will be welcoming fans from England for this one-of-a-kind match to take place in our country. Once again, the true colours of the KZN fans will be revealed for this game.

                                                                                                            Siphosethu Siyabaxi