Gauteng Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation MEC Lebogang Maile has promised to make sure that excellence in school sports is properly recognised with the re-establishment of the Gauteng School Sport Awards, to be launched on 9 December at Wits University, in cooperation with the Gauteng Department of Education.
The provincial school sport awards were last held in 2002. MEC Maile has since expressed his intentions to hoist the awards into one of the important events consistent with the annual glory of the Gauteng Sport Awards.
Maile said: “In line with our renewed commitment to School Sport in general, these awards will be used as a tool to promote, reward and celebrate excellence at school sport level, some of our celebrated champion athletes such as Olympians Chad Le Clos, Khotso Mokoena and Cameron van der Burg, footballers Simphiwe Tshabalala, Senzo Meyiwa and others, as well as Wheelchair Tennis star Lucas Sithole are among the abundant talent that started shining from school level, and an example of the future stars that the awards will seek to honour and recognise in schools”.
MEC Maile is expected to brief media at the launch and introduce the categories to be awarded as well as the nomination procedure, which will include awards for both Primary and Secondary School levels.
Nominations for the School Sport Awards will open on the day of the launch, 9 December 2013 and close on 24 January 2014. Finalists will be announced on 7 February with the main awards event scheduled for 21 February 2014.
Members of the media are cordially invited to the launch.
Details of the School Sport awards media launch are as follows:
Date: Monday, 9 December 2013
Venue: Wits Club, West Campus, Wits University (Braamfontein)
Time: 10h00am
For media enquiries contact:
Nomazwe Ntlokwana
Cell: 083 507 8068
Tel: 011 355 2578
E-mail: nomazwen@gpg.gov.za
