Northern Cape Department Transport, Safety and Liaison successfully gathered well over 300 youths to participate in sporting activities on the backdrop of Youth Month.
The department, hosted sports against crime programmes in commemoration of the 16 June 1976 uprising over the weekend at Boitumelo High School in Kimberley and participated at the Rietvale High School activities in Ritchie. The Sports Against Crime project, a programme unfolding throughout the year in the department’s calendar of events, serves as an alternative to criminal activities by getting communities involved in sports.
Sports against crime aims to discourage idling minds in communities and instead fill open gaps of leisure time with sporting activities as sports can be used to curb crime, substance abuse and other social ills. During the event, youths get introduced to various ways of utilising their leisure time constructively, are made aware of dangers of crime and substance abuse.
Sporting activities included various sporting codes and indigenous gams such as volley ball, soccer, netball, rope skipping, hula-hoop and gumboot dance. Participants from non-governmental organisation (NGO) teams and community members who formed teams to participate in activities received certificates after the games.
Stakeholders for the event included the Provincial Department of Sports, Arts and Culture, South African Police Service and Safety Volunteers.
Enquires:
Keitumetse Moticoe
Tel: 053 839 176
Cell: 074 251 6567
E-mail: kgmoticoe@gmail.com
