Trade Wars break out at faculty teambuilding day

Posted by Melt van Schoor on 2019-11-12

Continuing in the tradition of participating enthusiastically in the EMS faculty's annual teambuilding day volleyball competition, the Economics department managed to win third place out of ten teams this year. Pictured at the event are (left to right) Prof Andrie Schoombee (HoD), the team ("Trade Wars") consisting of Kara Dimitruk ("Yoda"), Nico Katzke ("Darth Vader"), Debra Shepherd ("Rogue One"), Hylton Hollander ("Han Solo"), Prince Changole ("The Force"), Dawie van Lill ("Kylo Ren") and Gideon du Rand ("#1 supporter"). Congratulations to the team, particularly for winning a hard-fought 3rd/4th place playoff match against #4 team, team "Unbalanced" from the accounting department.

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