Mayor opens revamped Kagiso Sports Complex
Mayor Lipudi expressed the municipality’s commitment to revamping sports facilities throughout the city.
Mogale City’s Executive Mayor, Councillor Patrick Lipudi, has officially opened the refurbished Kagiso Sports Complex at an event attended by young and old sports luminaries from all over the West Rand.
The revamped sports complex, which cost the municipality over R24 million, is situated in Kagiso – the oldest township on the West Rand.
The complex now boasts two state-of-the-art double-storey buildings and an administration building which is adjacent to the newly constructed netball, volleyball, tennis and basketball courts.
The first double-storey building, which overlooks two brand new soccer fields with floodlights, is a clubhouse and features a VIP seating area, two sets of change rooms and ablution facilities. The top floor of the second building is home to a boxing gym while the aerobics studio occupies the bottom floor.
Mogale City Municipality held fruitful talks with the Gauteng Cricket Board to give attention to the cricket field and build a cricket clubhouse. The clubs that the municipality will engage include Kagiso Striders Athletics Club, Kagiso Sting Rugby Club and Dida Promotions. The purpose of these engagements is to ensure that Kagiso continues to produce talented young athletes to represent the province and the country at various levels.
In his address, Councillor Lipudi expressed the municipality’s commitment to revamping sports facilities throughout the city while promoting all sporting codes.
“This city has produced great athletes in various sporting codes from boxing and soccer, to tennis, cricket and athletics. It is therefore not surprising that the municipality took a deliberate decision to make substantial investments in revamping and refurbishing sports facilities in the city,” said Councillor Lipudi.
An avid soccer player himself, Councillor Lipudi added that sports can play a catalytic role in building social cohesion in the country.
“We are revamping sports facilities because we recognise that sport is one of the ways to get the youth off the streets and away from negative behaviour such as habit-forming drug and alcohol abuse which inevitably leads to crime and other ills.”
The handover ceremony was officiated by Social Services Executive Manager, Ashmar Khudige. The Executive Mayor was accompanied by members of the mayoral committee, councillors Charmaine Ntlatlane-Zwane, Francinah Chohledi and Paul Molapo.
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