The function was enhanced by the presence of some distinguished guests: the Dean of Latin American and Caribbean group Ambassador Carlos Sersale, Mr Ignacio Priego, Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of Spain and Ms Elisabeth Araujo, Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of Venezuela, Mrs Maguelone Orliange, Director of the Alliance Française of Pretoria and Mr Patrick Parrot, Co-operation Attaché for French. Ms Gisela Fasse, Language Subject Advisor for German, donated the book prizes for the German students.

Dr Stephan Muehr, Acting Head of the department, officially opened the function, welcoming the students and the honourable guests.

Each section of the Department of Modern European Languages performed. The German students presented a sketch and some songs. The French students presented two songs, one of them accompanied by guitarist and it ended with a song and a Salsa dance by the Spanish students.

In between the students’ performances, each section gave prizes to the best students of the class as well as to the meritorious ones. After this, everyone was invited to a wonderful buffet where they could also find German, Spanish and French specialities.

The function was a great success and the students had a lot of fun.