Imizama Yethu Secondary School, a beneficiary of the Cricket South Africa Black African Schools Cricketers Focus School Development Project, recently received the award as Development School at the Eden Sport Awards function. The school is currently participating in SWD's schools fixtures (Coca-Cola T20, Regional Fixtures and Saturday league). They entered u.15 and u.19 teams in the different leagues.
The school played in the final of the promotion league of the SWD Schools league and is also a feeder school for Thembalethu Cricket Club who was promoted to the SWD Premier League at the beginning of the present season.
This project is an important segment of the development program.
Imizamo Yethu Secondary School will play a crucial role in providing Black African School Cricketers for SWD Age group teams. Various players namely Mihlali Gcanga (u.19) and Siyabonga Mbathana (u.17) were included in the SWD Schools teams for 2014.
In May 2014, Siya Nkosana was appointed by SWD Cricket as the high performance coach. He is assisted by two cricket coordinators for the region to attend to pre-schools (KFC program), primary schools (KFC program and hardball cricket) and high schools (hardball cricket). The appointed elite coach at the school helps to assist current school players and coaches and empowering them.
In reaction, Mr Rudy Claassen the President of SWD Cricket, confirmed SWD Cricket's commitment towards this program. "In order to achieve Cricket South Africa's Transformation imperatives it will be important that SWD Cricket must continue to strive in the fulfilment of the set goals and to promote the vision of Cricket South and national government for a game played by all", he said.
SWD Cricket in partnership with the Lotteries Board and Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport invested an amount of R1-mil in the construction of a cricket facility at Imizamo Yethu Senior Secondary School in 2009.
Mr Niels Momberg (front row right), Youth and Tertiary Manager at CSA, during his visit to Imizama Yethu Secondary School last week. Also present were Albertus Kennedy (Chief Executive Officer SWD Cricket), Ms PDP Cona (Deputy Head Master, Imizama Yethu), Mr Bathini Malobola (Chairperson of the School Governing Body), André du Plessis (SWD Cricket High Performance Coach), Josepth Sonti (Thembalethu Hub Coach), Johan Weyers (Amateur Manager SWD Cricket), Lastword Tapfumanyei (Head Coach of Thembalethu Hub), Simon Dzimiri (MM Mateza Coach), Lukhanyo Makhula (Thembalethu Hub Coach), Ms NL Gcaza (Mini Cricket Coach) and Siya Nkosana (Elite Coach: Thembalethu).
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