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Camp Friends are the Best Kind of Friends

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We know you love our staff members. You love that they're quirky You love that they're fun Parents love that they protect you from the sun. But do you know how they came to be Spending time with you in the Zinkwazi sea? We thought you'd be keen to learn more about  The great Sangi & Wave , so we gave them a shout:   The Wise & Wonderful SANGOMA Years at Sugar Bay: 9 sweet sweet years of wonder Fav Camp Food: Chef's Chicken Curry Fav Camp Tradition: Camp-Out, it's the best! Fav Camp Activity: Movie making for Sangoma FM Productions and Sugar Bay's Youtube Channel Sangoma is an outdoor educator and camp extraordinaire who has worked at camps in America, South Africa, Croatia and the UK, where he's originally from. You name it and this hero has done it! Sangoma has travelled to 60 countries, worked in an orphanage in Vietnam and is obsessed with spicy food. Some even say he puts chilli on his corn flakes, but you'll...

We're all about the YOU(th)!

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At Sugar Bay we're all about getting our youth outdoors, offering them unique opportunities to challenge themselves in order to grow and develop as individuals. With that being said, we are pleased to announce that we are now going one step further with the latest addition to our holiday camps: The opportunity to achieve Bronze Level of the President's Award for Youth Empowerment. The President’s Award is part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award. It is an exciting personal challenge for young people between the ages of 14 and 24, started in the United Kingdom in 1956 and first becoming available to South Africans in 1983. To-date there have been over 14 300 active participants in South Africa. Read more about it here.   To be awarded Bronze in the Adventurous Journey category, participants will be required to complete a 2 day, overnight journey consisting of 6 hours of planned activities each day.   At Sugar Bay, we'll achieve the ...