Exciting news! Our meeting schedule is getting a revamp for the better! After careful consideration, we've decided streamline our meetings to one in-person and one online meeting a month. This change aims to make our meetings more efficient.

From past experience we have seen this time of year is super busy, with many members juggling multiple commitments, and getting up early for a Toastmasters meeting during winter can be a challenge.  Typically, most members attend once or twice a month, wit...

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Verity Price, DTM, from Cape Town, South Africa, won the Toastmasters’ second online World Championship of Public Speaking® with her speech “A great Read”, a funny, profound look at changing the way you look at life.  Many clubs in the Southern Africa region felt like winners with Verity as we experienced first-hand a small part of the effort she put into the 100 days leading up to the finals.

Read about her journey to becoming the 2021 Champion in this fabulous article about  in the ...

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Akos Mensah, 19 November 2021

Recently one of my fellow Toastmasters called me the night before our club meeting to say that he would like to pull out as a contestant as he felt ill prepared to participate in the Humour Contest. He had not yet completed writing his 7 minute speech. He had been busy with work deadlines, and he felt that he needed more time to prepare his speech. He offered to do a different role in the meeting and wanted to be a timekeeper or Zoommaster.
 
I listened to him and a...
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3 March 2021

The International Speech contest was something out of the ordinary for everyone at the Breakfast Club. 

The engaging and exciting contest was held online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Four phenomenal speakers brought their A-game and blew us away with their speeches. They were: Gideon Louw, Marc Burgess, Nerisa Shiri Mnemba and Vuyokazi Ntsangani.

Toastmaster Vuyokazi Ntsangani took the first prize with her speech titled: "It's just a lie", a speech that touched hearts and rea...

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One year of online meetings....

A year ago, South Africa went into lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Since then, many aspects of personal and professional lives have been disrupted, but Toastmasters clubs went online very quickly to provide a sense of normalcy to our members. This has allowed members to visit a Toastmasters Club anywhere in the world from the comfort of our homes.  The Breakfast Club had the first virtual meeting on 25 March 2020 and during the past year, we ...

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Do you want to get a fast-track on your Speech and Leadership projects? 
You can!

We have the privilege of teaching Speechcraft for the Sports Science Institute from 29th July for 6 weeks. Contact François Rossouw at francois(@)luceda.co.za and step up your own progress a notch, too. We need timekeepers, demo speakers, toastmasters and more. 

PLUS: Speech contest — 19 August 2015 at 7.30am

It will take place at our usual meeting time and place and we are looking for more contestants, judges, t...
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Seriously, we always get chocolate prizes at the Breakfast Club...

That is why so many of us attend ;)

But today we actually all got to eat gourmet choccies for breakfast - what a pity some chocolate lovers like Noni could not be with us ;)

Our cracking three speeches started with Brenda Trope's "Mmm, chocolate — yummy!" in which she demonstrated how one can make healthy, unprocessed chocolate and used body language in her speech as part of her CC5 assignment. We all got to sample her scummy w...
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Thank you to the outgoing Division Governor of Toastmasters Southern Africa, Aletta Rochat, who shared "Reflections of a DG" with us as a Competent Communicator project.


Her inspiring points were that:

•  holding high office is not about the Wearing the Badge, but about the opportunity to serve and grow
  
• things are always personal first, because that is how the Toastmasters organisation best serves the individual member 
• you have to have a message, otherwise you are just transmitting information.

Th...

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First up, congratulations to our meeting award winners who went home clasping chocolate as always!  Alison Beere (Best Speaker), Sarah Rossouw (Best Evaluator), and guest Zoliswa Gidi (Best Table Topic Speaker)

Nathan Phillander was Toastmaster of the day and chose the theme Wonderful Winter to set an upbeat tone in spite of the weather. Thanks Nathan for your energetic and entertaining leadership, and all the best for those university exams next week.

It was a meeting of reaching goals and wel...

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Alison Beere (Breakfast Club secretary) has taken on the task of dealing with all things web, so watch this space for more Club news!

The big win for Alison is that this relatively small administrative commitment will help her fulfill the requirements of a couple of projects in her Competent Leadership manual, moving her closer to her next achievement.
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In a toughly contested battle between V. Acant and myself, I am the newly appointed VP PR (Vice President - Public Relations) for The Breakfast Club.

My purpose for this new role is two fold: complete my CL manual by using this position to fulfil some outstanding assignments, (see, I am honest) and to give other members the opportunity to work on some of the more obscure assignments (I am generous too).
 
If you are trying to finish your CL manual, (and who wouldn’t want to achieve that accola...
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~ Sarah Rossouw

After an excellent meeting the week before, mostly because I got over myself and shocked everyone by delivering a prepared speech, I was thrilled to see a full table of faces greet me on Wednesday morning – 14 pairs of eyes stared with anticipation back at me!  We welcomed two guests in this number, Rhona and Leanne, a mother and daughter team out to conquer the world.  We hope to see them again.
 
Francois led the meeting with his usual aplomb and entertained us with stories i...
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Toastmasters from across the country gathered in the Mother City this past weekend for District 74's annual MiniCon, which was hosted at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. It kicked off on Friday evening and didn’t stop until the last booty had been shaken late on Saturday night.

It’s been said that once you have attended a conference you will be hooked for life, a truism if ever there was one. District 74 Conferences are renowned for providing great value for money, fantasti...

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The Breakfast Club is soon to be represented by member Verity Price at the District Contest for Humourous Speaking that will be held at Kirstenbosch on the 13th of October at the Flower Power Mini Con. 

Verity won the Division Contest on the 27th September that was held at The Alphen Hall in Constantia with her speech 'Me, Myself & I'. This makes her the Western Cape and Nambia winner and she will now compete for the title of Southern African Champion at the District Contest.

To book your plac...
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At just over a year old and already 59 meetings in, I think we can safely say that The Breakfast Club is way past “the little train that could” stage and now in a league all its own. Catch us if you can is probably more apt these days.   We enjoyed another fun meeting this morning, with lots of old faces and even a few new ones. It was great to have such a big turnout.

Unfortunately Thobeka made a last minute apology, which left Angela not only as the first speaker on the agenda, but also ...
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At the Area Contest held at Good Hope Toastmasters' venue in Tokai, on of our members Verity was placed 1st in the Humourous Prepared Speech Category.  This was our Club's first time to enter a competition as a newly chartered club, so it is very exciting to have one of our members be placed first!

Verity will be representing The Breakfast Club at the Division Contest on the 27th of September at the Alphen Hall in Constantia. She will be competing against all the Area winners from the Western ...
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On Wed 5th September The Breakfast Club hosted its first ever Humourous Speaking & Impromptu Contest! As a newly chartered club it was an exciting moment for all our members, and the contest didn't disappoint. With a fantastic selection of Humourous and  Impromptu speeches, the morning was an undoubted success!

Humourous Speaking
1st Place:     Verity Price
2nd Place:    Nicky Seymour

Impromptu Speaking
1st Place:     Berni Le Clus
2nd Place:    Francois Rossouw
3rd Place:     Thobeka September

Congr...
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The Breakfast Club’s first meeting was on Wednesday 6 July 2011 with 14 people in attendance. 

It was the brainchild of Francois Rossouw and Jason Sandler, who kicked the idea around for some months before a venue was found and the first meeting was organised.  Since then the club has had 58 meetings and grown its membership to 20 members.

The club was chartered on 27 June 2012  - a huge and exciting milestone for the club and all its members!

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