Presentation skills in SA are keys to arrest audience attention all over. Presentation skills have turned the course the history many a time. Remember Abraham Lincoln's ‘Four score and twenty years ago ...' or Martin Luther King's ‘I have a dream' or the way Mark Anthony brought the passions of the motley Roman crowd to a boil with his ‘Friends, Romans and countrymen ...' harangue? Well, those were historic icons that could hold history by the scruff of its neck and make it follow their biddings, but we mere mortals can also hone our presentation skills in SA to a very great extent and get our points through with consummate ease if only we have the patience to adhere to certain basic rules of presentation skills in SA. The first tenet of presentation skills in SA is to become nervous before you are about to deliver your presentation. It might sound preposterous, does it? But you must be nervous before you deliver else you would become so laidback and easygoing that the importance of the occasion might lose out on you - as they say - you can get your nervousness to fly into one direction. A disinterested presenter is the last thing an audience would want. So, being a little bit tensed is not a bad thing at all. But that is not all. It would serve no purpose if you remain tensed for the entire week before your presentation and do not take the trouble of repeatedly rehearsing your presentation. Rehearsal is one of the vital ingredients of presentation skills in SA.