The Indigenous Games Festival which were held at the Ugu Sports and Leisure Centre, among other places, came to an end on September 28.
The festival of games was hosted by the Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, and this was the 16th edition.
Under the theme ‘Celebrating the Legacy of Solomon Linda and South Africa’s Indigenous Music’, the games encompassed a total of nine indigenous sporting codes.
These codes included the dibeke, diketo, ncuva, morabaraba, lintonga, drie – Stokkies, kgati, and Jukskei.
Other venues for the games included the Margate Country Club and the Margate Sports School.
Athletes were billed to participate in the indigenous codes once more granting the South Coast a nostalgic moment of growing up playing these games.
According to the Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Jukskei is a target game played by two teams of four each with one leader each.
It said the players use skeets made of rubber, wood or other composite synthetic materials of between 300mm and 460mm in length, weighing no more than 1.8kg for seniors and 1.1kg for juniors.
“The aim of the game is to score points by using the skeets to hit targets placed on the field,” said the department. It added that Ncuva is a board game played by teams of one to six players a side per game.
“Four rows of four circles/holes each are drawn, dug on flat ground or sculpted onto the board (total of 16 holes. A line is used to divide the board into two rows of eight holes each. To play, each play uses 32 ‘cows’ (tokens) made of marula fruit kernels or small stones. The stones are placed in sets of four in the holes for the game to start,” said the department.
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