GAUTENG Sports Awards was launched on Monday, December 9 at Wits University to honour the learners of the province for their efforts during the season.
The awards will be for school learners in the province who have excelled in their respective codes in the 2013 season. The awards for Gauteng were re-instated to give learners the chance to enhance their efforts to become the best in their code of sport.
Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation MEC Lebogang Maile has promised to make sure that excellence in school sports is properly recognised with the re-establishment of the Gauteng School Sports Awards, in cooperation with the Gauteng Department of Education.
The provincial school sports awards were last held in 2002. MEC Maile has since expressed his intentions to hoist the awards into one of the important events consistent with the annual glory of the Gauteng Sports Awards.
Maile said, “In line with our renewed commitment to School Sports in general, these awards will be used as a tool to promote, reward and celebrate excellence at school sports level. Some of our celebrated champion athletes such as Olympians Chad Le Clos, Khotso Mokoena and Cameron van der Burg, footballers Simphiwe Tshabalala, Senzo Meyiwa and others, as well as Wheelchair Tennis star Lucas Sithole are among the abundant talent that started shining from school level, and an example of the future stars that the awards will seek to honour and recognise in schools”.
Nominations for the School Sports Awards opened on the day of the launch, December 9 and will close on January 24, 2014. Finalists will be announced on February 7 with the main awards event scheduled for February 21.
