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Limpopo team aim for a gold at Indigenous Games

The National Indigenous Games include kgati, morabaraba, diketo, intonga, jukskei, ncuva, khokho, drie stokkies and dibeke and the Limpopo team say they are confident they'll return with gold.

POLOKWANE – The team set to represent Limpopo at the National Indigenous Games is aiming for gold medals across the board.

The games are set to begin on Thursday (September 29) at the Ugu Sport Centre in KwaZulu-Natal.

The group will compete with other provincial teams in kgati, morabaraba, diketo, intonga, jukskei, ncuva, khokho, drie stokkies and dibeke.

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The team was selected during the provincial leg of the games at the Polokwane Cricket Club in August.

“We have a balanced team and all the districts are represented in all the codes.We won a gold medal for khokho in 2019 in Durban.We have a strong team comprising of young and experienced players that have participated in the event before,” Jermina Kaka, deputy director of Communications at Department Sport, Arts and Culture said.

Kaka added that the team is extremely confident in their respective codes and the experience they have and that they have been working hard and have the potential and capacity to bring home gold medals.

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Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. – Tom Stoppard

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