Khutsong’s chess players tops
A group of chess players from Khutsong excelled during the National Schools Winter Games over the past holiday.
The event, during which players of chess, soccer, netball, rugby, Kho-Kho, hockey and jukskei could battle for places, took place in Benoni.
Chess has once again made Gauteng very proud by scooping the gold and silver in the u.15 and u.18
age groups respectively, maintaining last year’s great performance.
This year several players from Khutsong were again part of the Gauteng teams.
They are Bokang Letlhoo, Vuyani Kula, Vusumzi Msebenzi, Nokuthula Msiwa and Unathi Maseko from Badirile Secondary School and Thandiswa Mvundla from Tswasongu High School.
“It is never easy to make it into Team Gauteng because of the strength and number of good players in Gauteng. But we have set a record by having eight players last year and six this year, all coming from Khutsong. I’m proud of what the players achieved. They have proven themselves from District level to Province and National. They set the record which will be hard to break” said their coach, Mr Eazy Tshabadira. Not only did they participate but produced excellent performances that enabled Gauteng to
take the crown. Individual performances from Letlhoo, Kula and Mvundla were greatly appreciated by Gauteng.
Tshabadira himself was also appointed as the Chief Arbiter (top technical official) for the event.
Tshabadira, a teacher at Hlangabeza Primary School in Khutsong who has built the school’s, Khutsong’s and our area’s name in international chess circles, was trusted with running the national schools’ chess event. It is always a big task to be in charge of the event of this magnitude. It comes with pressures from all sides, and has to be handled with great efficiency. He had been appointed as Deputy in two previous national events.
