Government plays for championship keeps
The championships brought together various sectors of local and provincial Government, metropolitan areas plus the private sector.
Lolo Madonsela
To promote healthy living and a healthy mind, the KwaZulu-Natal Government has put a policy in place to encourage workers to participate in sport.
The policy states employees must get an hour per day, which works out to four hours a month, for work and play where they engage in different sporting codes.
Currently, this policy has been adopted by all provincial Government departments, after which a championship event was formed.
AbaQulusi Local Municipality had the opportunity this past weekend to host the 7th KZN Provincial Work and Play Championships, which took place over two days at Cecil Emmett Park.
Sporting codes included under-35 and veterans netball, u-35 and veterans male and female soccer and mixed volleyball.
The championships brought together various sectors of local and provincial Government, metropolitan areas plus the private sector.
Led and coordinated by the Department of Sport and Recreation (DSR), it was emphasised the championships were meant to assist employees in performing their duties, as they got time off of work to participate in sports they love.
Municipalities also have the chance to assess sporting infrastructure, with games rotating to all the corners of KZN.
The results for the weekend are as follows:
Open volleyball: winner – King Cetshwayo (all others were disqualified for having insufficient documents).
Veterans netball: first place – eThekwini, second place – Umgungundlovu, third place – Zululand.
U-35 netball: first place – eThekwini, second place – Zululand, third place – Uthukela.
Male veterans soccer: first place – Uthukela, second place – eThekwini, third place – King Cetshwayo.
Open soccer: first place – Uthukela, second place – Umgungundlovu, third place – eThekwini.
Overall results: eThekwini won with 19 total points, Uthukela finished second with 12 combined points and King Cetshwayo and Umgungundlovu tied for third with six points respectively.
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