Seventeen wards to form one sports body
Meeting confirmed with councillors to discuss plans going forward.
Passionate lover of sports and community member, Aubrey Thomas has revealed plans for the future to form one sporting body which is of concern to a total of 17 wards in Region C.
These plans are to be revealed with councillors and various sports people when a meeting takes place on Friday 30 May at the Civic Centre in Florida at 2pm.
“We kindly and openly invite each councillor and his or her sports people to attend this meeting,” Thomas said.
“The aim is to get all wards 44, 49, 50, 70, 71, 83, 84, 85, 89, 97, 100, 101, 114, 126, 127, 128 and 129 to form the Roodepoort Sports Council (RSC) or, the Roodepoort Sports Forum for the time being.
Thomas pointed out the current existing Area Sports Committees being the Roodepoort Sports Development Foundation (RSDF) under Theo van Rensburg in Ward 71; the Sports Committee under Mervin Mooi in Ward 70 and the Doornkop Sports Forum under Lawrence Molapo which also compises sports people from Wards 50 and 129.
“All the above Area Sports Comittees fall under Regaion C. We now wish to assisst the rest of the Wards in Region C to come on board and form their own Sports Committees. Region C Local Sports Council, known as Roodepoort Sports Council, will then affiliate to Johannesburg Sports Council (JSC), who is affiliated to Gauteng Sports Council (GSC) in the Gauteng Province,” Thomas said.
Thomas added “The bigger picture is that this will be a way of fighting drugs and alcohol abuse in our communities.”
A Youth Games have also been confirmed to take place on Friday 4 July 2014 at Marks Park Sports Grounds in Johannesburg.
The five different sporting codes on the day are netball; basketball for boys and girls; football (women only); athletics (track events such as 400m, 200m and 100m and field events such as long jump, shot put and javelin) as well as indigenous games (Morabraba/ Meel; Ncuva and Diketo).
• Details: Aubrey on 071 760 5505.
