Charli Wiggill
Charli Wiggill was born in 1963 of a Bushveld father and Swiss mother and raised on a game farm in the then Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). The early years were a wonderful mix of extended family, boarding school and awesome nature (including, on occasion, lions in the front garden), but also an awakening of social injustice and inequality. Bidding farewell to the Lowveld, he qualified as a teacher of English and Physical Education at the Johannesburg College of Education and taught in Johannesburg before moving to KwaZulu-Natal in 1989.
He educated boys at senior school level for eighteen years, trying to promote a balanced view of life that includes academics, sport and cultural activities. In 2003 he accepted a post at Crawford Preparatory Durban and currently teaches the seniors English at this leading school. While the mornings are filled with the excitement of Outcomes Based Education, and the afternoons with hockey and other co-curricular activities, the evenings are taken up by a lectureship at Varsity College where he heads up the PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education), a UNISA course offering graduates a career in education.
Having always enjoyed poetry and dabbling a little in writing poetry at school, it was only in recent years that Charles found the muse really becoming a resident. Recurring themes are wild life, human nature, politics and the tasty morsels of what is unique South African satire. This includes our vibrant dialects and sociolects, platteland logic, and the pulsating rhythms that can only be the heartbeat of Africa. Having travelled and observed nuances of other cultures, he believes that there is no place like home – South Africa offers the most vivid palette!
He is passionate about life and, in particular, leadership and education.
Opgedateer/Updated: 2008-05-13
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He educated boys at senior school level for eighteen years, trying to promote a balanced view of life that includes academics, sport and cultural activities. In 2003 he accepted a post at Crawford Preparatory Durban and currently teaches the seniors English at this leading school. While the mornings are filled with the excitement of Outcomes Based Education, and the afternoons with hockey and other co-curricular activities, the evenings are taken up by a lectureship at Varsity College where he heads up the PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education), a UNISA course offering graduates a career in education.
Having always enjoyed poetry and dabbling a little in writing poetry at school, it was only in recent years that Charles found the muse really becoming a resident. Recurring themes are wild life, human nature, politics and the tasty morsels of what is unique South African satire. This includes our vibrant dialects and sociolects, platteland logic, and the pulsating rhythms that can only be the heartbeat of Africa. Having travelled and observed nuances of other cultures, he believes that there is no place like home – South Africa offers the most vivid palette!
He is passionate about life and, in particular, leadership and education.
Opgedateer/Updated: 2008-05-13
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