Welcome to The South African National Geography Olympiad (SANGO)

Our 2022 events are as follows:

17 May – SANGO Senior – Grades 10, 11 & 12
7 June – SANGO Primary – Grades 6 & 7
20 September – SANGO Junior – Grades 8 & 9

To Express Interest in your school's participation in these events, please complete the webform available here: https://sango.org.za.
Guidelines on how to participate are available here.

Aims:

SANGO aims to: (1) foster a love of Geography and interest in the world, (2) support the South African Geography Curriculum and (3) build capacity to send a South African team to the International Geography Olympiad (iGeo).

SANGO is partnered by:

The professional Society of South African Geographers (SSAG), The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and the International Geography Olympiad (iGEO)

Supported by:

The South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA); the South African National Departments of Basic Education (DBE); South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA); Association of Science Technology Engineering Mathematics and Innovation (ASTEMI).

Entry requirements for SANGO Senior:

High school learners in Grades 10, 11 and 12 are eligible to participate. Learners must have their own individual email addresses to participate. Schools must provide learners adequate internet facilities to access the online Olympiad on the day. The Olympiad can be accessed via cell phones, tablets, laptops, and PC’s.

Entry requirements for SANGO Junior:
Same as above except learners must be in Grades 8 and 9.

Entry requirements for SANGO Primary:
Same as above but learners must be in Primary School, Grades 6 and 7.

Costs:

Payments are organised and made through schools. Schools pay an annual R65 registration fee, and each participating learner pays R45. There are no refunds.

To Express Interest in participating please apply here: https://sango.org.za

Why participate:

Inspires learners by stimulating their interest geography, tests their geographic knowledge in a fun way, learners have the opportunity to receive recognition for their achievements, and it is a learning opportunity as we adhere to the learning from assessment principle.

How it works:

Round 1: Schools pay for and pre-register learners. This is an online competition, undertaken at schools’ premises (or at home in the case of lockdowns), between 7am and 5pm under exam conditions.

There are 40 multiple choice questions, each with graphics/data. All learners are awarded an official electronic certificate in the following categories: Participation, Bronze (top 15%), Silver (top 10%), Gold (top 5%), and Platinum (top 1%).

Round 2: Top participants from Round 1 will be invited to submit a school research project, which will then be judged, and a national winner declared. Prizes will be awarded to top learners, as well as special certificates. Note that submissions that are plagiarized will result in disqualification. To cover costs there is a small admin fee associated with Round 2. There is no Round 2 for SANGO Primary.

Winners from Round 2 will represent South Africa at the iGEO in 2022.
SANGO is recognised by the International Geography Olympiad as the only national geography competition in South Africa entitled to send a team to the iGeo, see here.

Themes to be tested:

Climate & climate change
Hazards & hazard management
Resources & resource management
Environmental geography & sustainable development
Landforms, landscapes & land use
Agricultural geography & food problems
Population & population change
Economic geography & globalisation
Development geography & spatial inequality
Urban geography, urban renewal & urban planning
Tourism & tourism management
Cultural geography & regional identities

Required skills:

Mapping skills
Inquiry skills
Graphicacy skills (read, analyse and interpret images, photos, statistics, and graphs)

A key regional focus for 2022 is France.

Call for Multiple Choice Questions:

Contribute to the MCQ’s for the 2022 online South African National Geography Olympiad (SANGO)! Download the formatting guidelines and submission procedure here.

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