The Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation will host the Dance Competition for People with Disabilities on 27 February 2010. The event will be hosted under the auspices of Thabong Arts and Culture Centre in Thabong, Welkom.
In the year 2000, Thabong Arts and Culture Centre started offering ballroom and Latin dance and also successfully staged the provincial dance champions’ competition. Since 2008 the centre has embarked on ballroom and Latin dance for people with disabilities within Matjhabeng local municipality and the broader Lejweleputswa district municipality.
Amongst its key objectives the centre aims to promote ballroom and Latin dancing as a social activity within Matjhabeng and Lejweleputswa broadly. The project, Thabong Dance Competition for People with Disabilities aims to mobilise communities to support people with disabilities and also introduce dance to the disabled community.
In 2008 the South African Disability Dance competition was held in Bloemfontein. A couple of dancers trained at the centre received a silver medal and five more couples got position five. The Thabong Dance Competition for the Disabled will be the first national competition for the designated group to be hosted by the department through the Thabong Arts and Culture Centre.
The dance competition is expected to reach between 400 disabled competitors.
Your media house is cordially invited.
General enquiries:
Moipone Mokhutle-Moroka
Tel: 057 355 6757
Cell: 083 496 8409
E-mail: moipone.mm@sacr.fs.gov.za
Media enquiries:
Tankiso Zola
Tel: 051 4104742 or 4786 or 4719
Cell: 082 940 2392
E-mail: tankiso@sac.fs.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Free State Provincial Government
26 February 2010
