King Edward VII School Old Boy, Siyabonga Ntubeni was yesterday included in the Springbok Touring Squad to Wales, Scotland and France. The diminutive 22-year-old, affectively known as “Scarra”, was the big bolter in Heyneke Meyer’s 32-man squad for the November internationals.

Ntubeni was the form hooker of the Currie Cup competition and was acknowledged as the player of the Month for September. According to rugby365 website, Scarra is quoted in saying on his selection: “Words cannot describe my feelings at the moment,” an elated Ntubeni said following Monday’s squad announcement.

“It really is beyond my wildest dreams. I’d like to thank everyone at Western Province – my teammates and coaches – and I look forward to joining my WP mates in the Bok squad.”

Ntubeni joins another KES legend and BOK superstar, Bryan Habana in the squad. Congratulations Scarra, we wish you much success in this exciting adventure. The RED Community has their sights firmly fixed on you!

Furthermore our Old Boy has shown he has a big heart and is generously giving back to the community too. Western Province hooker Scarra is just 22 but when asked to be the face of the Groote Schuur Hospital’s neonatal unit’s new campaign, ‘Little by Little’, he obliged without thinking twice. Ntubeni says he loves children and his warm and friendly demeanour was a hit with the kids and PR people alike. 

Well done Scarra, we are extremely proud of you!

King Edward VII School Old Boy, Paul Blomkamp (Class of 1966) will be holding a Solo Art Exhibition, ‘Smaller Works- The True Electric Essence’ on the 2 November at Gallery 360 in Bryanston, Johannesburg.

At the age of 19, Blomkamp was awarded the commission to make one of the (then) largest Stained Glass windows in the world. Although primarily a painter, Blomkamp spent the following 20 years producing a spate of large, modern windows for churches, homes and large corporations. Since 1993, he has concentrated exclusively on his paintings.

2004 – 2008 The artist launched his new series of oils on paper, and continued to do privately commissioned works for corporate as well as domestic clients.

‘Highveld Windveld’ is the title of Johannesburg artist, Paul Blomkamp’s new oils on paper. They form part of an ongoing series of works, inspired by his profound, almost obsessive fascination with the Magaliesberg mountain range in Gauteng.

The influence of Blomkamp’s early stained glass windows is still evident in his latest paintings, which appear to transmit rather than reflect light. They have a transparency, clarity and sharpness akin to glass, and often appear to be made of coloured light rather than paint.

Blomkamp’s works deals with the anatomy of energy. He is preoccupied with energy, what it is, what it looks like, largely because of an illness that left him without energy of his own for many years.

Now his paintings are celebrations of energised lines, shapes and spaces that throb and glow with pure, strong colour, existing solely for ways to illuminate the dark and the unknown. His reason for painting, he says, it is to make the connection with that subconscious passion and energy that sustains us and that moves us as surely as the wind through a field of wheat’.

His relationships with colour and energised line is an attempt, he maintains, ‘to confront the subconscious, and to expose and bring into the light that mystery, that primal force, that may give us clues, affirmations – that existence on our little planet, spinning in this perplexing Cosmos, is worthwhile and meaningful, after all’.

2008/2009 – He started the planning and preparation for his first painting in the trilogy of exceptional visionaries whom he hoped would spearhead his mammoth project in the Karoo which is aimed at job creation for the previously disadvantaged.

2010 – 2013 – He completed the portraits of Oprah Winfrey and Nelson Mandela, thus completing the trilogy of the largest portraits ever painted by a South African Artist of these three great leaders.

Congratulations Paul on your illustrious career and we encourage the King Edward Community to please support our Old Boy at his solo exhibition.

KES OLD BOY PAUL BLOMKAMP ART EXHIBITION Invite.pdf

King Edward VII School Old Boy, Callum Mowat  scored a hat-trick of  golfing wins recently in Swaziland. Callum won the Open Championship, the AAGTC Individual Title and Team South Africa won the AAGTC Trophy.

Callum Mowat, Zander Lombard, NJ Arnoldi and Gerlou combined to claim South Africa’s seventh successive triumph at the Royal Swazi Sun Country Club with a total score of 34-under-par 830, finishing 26 strokes clear of Zimbabwe.

Mowat clinched the Swazi Open title by two shots from Lombard on Sunday and edged out his team mate again to win the Individual Competition with rounds of 65-65-71-75. The Modderfontein golfer said it was a much tougher day at the office, but he was delighted that the team backed him up in the final round.
“I struggled, but the team pulled through and that is what this championship is all about,” he said.

“I have to thank the team, Llewellyn and the SAGA for this opportunity and for what has undoubtedly been the best week of my golfing career. To win the Swazi Open and the AAGTC and the individual competition was more than I dreamed of doing. And I have to say thanks to my coach, Robbie Stewart, my family and friends for their support and for believing in me.”

Congratulations Callum on these fantastic results and recent achievements, proving that hard work, dedication and commitment do eventually earn due rewards. The King Edward Community wish you many more accolades and success into the future!

Article links on Callum’s recent success and achievements: 

Mowat in Argentina

Mowat maiden win