Monday, June 10, 2013

Sport and Recreation is aimed to improve the quality of life of the communities through sport excellence within our area of jurisdiction. uPhongolo Municipality has selected the following codes to be played within the communities:

Soccer, Volleyball, Basketball, Dance, Table Tennis, Athletics, Rugby, Netball, Cricket, Boxing, Golf, Tennis and Karate. The section is also responsible to execute the following activities for the benefit of the youth:

  1. Organize Sport Tournaments in all codes selected by the Municipality in different wards.
  2. Organize Beauty Pageant to identify youth talent and expose their talents
  3. Traveling along with different codes to the tournaments organized by the federations and the Department of Sport and Recreation to different areas.
  4. Organize and co-ordinate Mayoral Cup from Ward level in all 14 Wards of the Municipality until District level and SALGA Games.
  5. Organize and co-ordinate tournaments in partnership with Schools Sport, Business People for the benefit of the Youth of uPhongolo Municipality.
  6. Co-ordinate events organized by the Local Municipality, ZDM, DSR and KZN Departments when visiting uPhongolo Municipality.
  7. Organize Mayoral Schools tournaments to identify and develop talents of the youth in all codes selected and cultural activities.
  8. Assist federations financially for affiliation, transport, clinics, workshops and awards at the end of the season to those teams performed exceptionally well.
  9. Initiating sport campaigns, awareness and sport indaba regarding sport developments.

The section will be embarking on visiting all wards of the Municipality to assess facilities whether are in good condition or not and request the Municipality to blade all facilities needed to be bladed and renovations before the Mayoral Cup start at the beginning of August 2013. We want to ensure that all Athletes use conducive facilities in all 14 Wards of the Municipality.

 









 

 

 

 

Monday, April 22, 2013

This business exhibition was complemented with interactive business seminars where the following organisations presented their services to SMMEs and Communities; NYDA(national Youth Development Agency), Department of Economic Development and Tourism(DEDT), Ithala Business Development Foundation, Trade and Investment KZN (TIKZN), Department of Trade and Industry(DTI), SEDA etc.

A classy organised Gala dinner was a perfect platform for identification of the investment opportunities where the Honourable Mayor touched key attributes of the area that Business people need to take advantage of.

On behalf of the MEC for Economic Development and Tourism Mr Cosmas Hamadziripi aluded on the key sectors that needs alignment between three spheres of Governement to form perfect mix of our economic development.

 
 
 










This SMME FAIR was closed with a high note by all businesses given opportunity to present their businesses where Sarafina and Maskandi traditional music blessed all the attendees with the soul food.