WATCH: Basketball unites 600 learners at PeacePlayers tournament
The mid-year tournament focuses on promoting gender equity and social cohesion.
SOME 600 school learners gathered at Hoy Park Sports Grounds in Durban as PeacePlayers South Africa held their 34th City-Wide Tournament (CWT) on Saturday, June 18.
This bi-annual event is held mid-year in June and at the end of the year in October. It brings 600 primary and high school participants and their coaches from 25 schools together from PeacePlayers SA’s weekly core programmes.
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“The mid-year tournament focuses on promoting gender equity and social cohesion. Players do not compete as their school teams; we create new co-ed (mixed) teams with both boys and girls for the day. The teams play about 80 games throughout the day. As we say at PeacePlayers, ‘Children who play together, can learn to live together’,” said Dr Alison Misselhorn, executive director of PeacePlayers SA.
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PeacePlayers South Africa is a youth empowerment organisation. They hosted their fourth annual Girls’ Basketball Festival at the University of KwaZulu Natal sports hall on Saturday, March 12, when high school learners from Port Shepstone to Pietermaritzburg competed on the courts.
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