Their share portfolio grew 11,12%, which means they have outdone several people who have made a career out of trading, says director of Liberty Life's marketing division Howard Fox. The two won R25000 and a visit to Egypt's stock exchange, which was announced at a function last week.

"If I was given R1m now, I'd probably hold cash and I would look at who's about to bottom out. What you lose you can often regain.

"I'd also invest in companies that trade in quality goods. The wealthy can still buy them," Wilson said.

The JSE and financial services group Liberty Life have been running the challenge for 35 years, and added university students to the mix three years ago, said JSE CEO Russell Loubser.

The aim is to educate youngsters about the intricacies of investment on the stock market with the idea of securing a better future for the children of SA.

In 2002 the challenge added an adopt-a-school programme that invites businesses and individuals to help schools from previously disadvantaged communities with a sponsorship that will enable them to compete with more privileged schools. The sponsorship includes entry fees for six teams and access to financial literature for the duration of the challenge.

This year, 28 companies helped 125 schools take part in the challenge. In total, 299 schools and all 23 universities participated .

The JSE has also helped some schools in Gauteng introduce their pupils to the stock market through a programme that helps teachers incorporate information about the JSE into the general curriculum, reaching 22300 pupils and 235 teachers, Loubser says.

This type of expansion of opportunities through which pupils can learn is important to the new curriculum, said Don Haripersad, the Gauteng education department's dir-ector of the further education and training and adult basic education and training curricula.

The two winning students had a wild time investing their "virtual R1m" for six months from March .

"It was very emotional at times. It was also very exciting. Some of our shares were taking a huge klap and some were making a huge profit.

"We went resource heavy in the beginning. We bought Westcoal and that was awesome, it almost doubled in value. We just thought, resources are big, there's the Eskom thing; Eskom's short of coal and Westcoal is a small company, there's a lot of potential for growth."

A month or two back, though, Wilson and Treherne stomped hard on the brakes and moved about 80% of their holdings into cash. They did so just ahead of the general JSE meltdown.

"There was a bit of a slow curve, so we converted 80% of our stock into cash because we thought it would be almost more like gambling than investing (to trade in the market). Then everyone lost money and we gave a big sigh of relief," Wilson says.

Their conservative move pushed them up from "fourth or fifth" place to the top.

So, what did the two learn?

"The markets are very volatile and sentiment can change overnight. If you can pick up on that sentiment you can make money," Treherne says. "Yes, but it consumes all your time," Wilson says.

Winners in the school competition, Cape Town's Wynberg High School, were not at the prize-giving last week, but another, rather interesting school was.

Witbank's Empucukweni Secondary School was given a special prize of R20000 for participating in the challenge every year since 2002, even though teacher David Baloyi, head of the commercial subjects department, has to travel to the town centre every time the team wants to place an order because the school does not have a fax machine, said Maureen Dlamini, head of the JSE's education division.

The school's best performance was in 2006, when it came seventh and Baloyi has, on his own, got sponsorship for the school to take part in the competition every year .

"Most of the pupils come from the informal settlement. I wanted to make them aware of the buying and selling of shares so they can get a better future through learning how to use money and get into business," he says.

Says grade 11 Empucuk-weni teamster Senzo Mbhokane: "I learnt that to make wealth is not easy but it is challenging. The only thing I need is opportunity. It's not how many times you fall that counts, it's how many times you get up."

"We believe that it is important to shed the light on this matter and to clarify any allegations that could tarnish the reputation of our organization. We do not accept that the integrity of the Grand Prix du Canada should be called into question, when it is evident that the table is being set for new negotiations with different levels of the Canadian government," concluded Mr. Wilson.

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Sarah-Émilie Bouchard, HKDP, (514) 250-7595

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