4th Annual Cape Town Games set to take place in Mitchells Plain
20 April 2016
Preparations for the annual Cape Town Games are well underway at the City’s Sport and Recreation facilities as participants gear up for the district games at various recreation hubs across Cape Town.
The 4th annual Cape Town Games will be hosted by the City of Cape Town’s Sport, Recreation and Amenities Department once again at the Swartklip Indoor Centre in Mitchells Plain on Saturday, 23 April 2016.
Cape Town Games draws in participants from all areas
More than 20 000 participants initially take part in the games at facility level. Approximately 5 000 participants then advance to take part in the games at area level where just over 3 000 participants are selected to participate at district level. The final participants who advance from the district level games then participate in the department’s overall Cape Town Games which usually includes approximately 640 participants, with around 160 participants from each of the 4 districts.
The event includes sport codes such as table tennis, pool, dominoes, chess, Marabaraba, board games, 5-a-side soccer, netball, Dibeke and Drie Stokkies, among others, in a competition format.
The Cape Town Games aims to encourage mass participation in physical activity and to showcase some of the activities taking place at the various community centres and recreation hubs across the metro. The event also aims to connect the unconnected by getting them involved in sports they otherwise would not have access to.
Events and programmes such as this promote a healthy lifestyle and use sport as a development tool to encourage social cohesion between citizens from all communities across Cape Town.
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