It’s that time of the year again when we explore our top three sports articles for 2022.
The Gazette’s team has worked throughout the year to bring you breaking news first, tell those sweet stories, challenge the hard topics and celebrate top achievements.
Number 1: Online platform emphasises the importance of sponsoring women’s sports
In light of Banyana Banyana’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations win and South African women’s sports lacking sponsors, gsport4girls held a breakfast to present a commercial roadmap with practical steps to help close the gender pay gap and ensure that sportswomen were fairly remunerated.
Speaking at Imperial Wanderers Stadium on July 29, gsport4girls founder Kass Naidoo said the online platform came about due to a lack of online women’s sports stories. Broadcaster Lebohang Motsoeli said companies made applying for women’s sports sponsorships seem easy, but in theory, it was not an easy process.
Number 2: Andre’s Taekwando’s Academy hosts prizegiving ceremony in Norwood
Andre’s Taekwondo Academy celebrated martial art participants at a prizegiving ceremony. Speaking on November 20, the founder of the Norwood academy Andre van Tonder said his students’ hard work throughout the year had paid off.
Martial artist Eliska Manickum (15) noted that although she had to stop taekwondo for two months due to an injury, she was glad to have received a ‘black belt attitude award’ at the prizegiving.
Number 3: Highlands Park community soccer club not only keeps the youth fit but keeps them off the streets
Supportive parents and guardians came out in their numbers and filled the Highlands Park stands for the club’s cup matches tournament on June 19.
The club’s junior coordinator Debbie IIouze said, “Today was the first cup matches. If they [teams] get knocked out they do not advance to the next round but we do have league matches every Sunday.”
IIouze added the community soccer club was one big family made up of people from different backgrounds.
