Awards
Awards Evening January 2026
Our awards and parents meeting was held on 29 January 2026.
Each award represents the commitment, effort, and growth demonstrated by our students.
The categories are as follows:
🥋 Most Outstanding: Llewellyn Ferreira (White to Yellow Belt);
🥋 Most Outstanding: Danica Ferreira (Orange-Green Belt); 🥋 Most Outstanding: Wessel Ferreira (Blue to Black Belt);
🥋 Most Technical: Elisabelle Lange (White to Green Belt); 🥋 Most Technical: Durjay Poorun (Blue – Black Belt);
🥋 Most Improved: Mark Staley (White to Green Belt); 🥋Most Improved: Megane Potgieter(Blue to Black Belt);
🥋 Most Spirited: Katlyn Vadeala (White to Green Belt); 🥋 Most Spirited: Gustav du Plessis (Blue to Black Belt);
🥋 Family of the Year: The Doro Family
🥋 Junior Instructor of the Year: Gustav Du Plessis
🥋 Sportswoman of the Year: Refiloe Doro
A huge congratulations to all! 
Awards Evening January 2025
The categories are as follows:
🥋 Most Outstanding: Lwethu Tshabangu (White – Yellow Belt) 🥋 Most Outstanding: Gustav du Plessis (Blue – Brown Belt) 🥋 Most Technical: Blue to Brown Belt
🥋 Most Technical: Rifiloe Doro (Blue to Brown Belt)
🥋 Most Improvied: Hailey Walker (White to Green Belt)
🥋 Most Dedicated: Mark Staley (White – Green Belt) 🥋 Most Dedicated: Madeleine Engelmohr (Blue. – Brown Belt) 🥋 Most Spirited: Dylan Grant (White – Green Belt) 🥋 Most Spirited: Kaeleb Staley (Blue – Brown Belt)
🥋 Family of the Year: The Doro Famliy
🥋 Junior Instructor of the Year: Zelmarie du Plessis
🥋 Instructor of the Year: Sensei Chris Martins
🥋 Sportswoman of the Year: Megane Potgieter
A huge congratulations to all!
Our awards and parents meeting was held on 30 January 2025.
Each award represents the commitment, effort, and growth demonstrated by our students.
Senpai Tony Martins (2nd Dan)
Senpai Joanne Martins (1st Dan)
Megane Potgieter
Megane Potgieter
Zelmarie du Plessis (1st Dan)
Junior Instructor of the year.
Black Belts
New World Shotokan Karate
Our instructors are accomplished, high-ranking black belts who take their teaching seriously, especially towards children, combining a comprehensive education in well-established, orthodox karate practice and philosophy with modern sports-orientated competition karate.
Traditional karate is about effective self-defence under all conditions. When we refer to traditional karate, we mean more than just kicks, punches and blocks. Shotokan’s founder Gichin Funakoshi emphasized that a fight can end up on the ground, for which you need skills other than kicking, punching and blocking.