By Obakeng Maje

Mahikeng-In order to intensify community mass sport participation, the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture working together with the recently launched Provincial Sport Council will on Saturday, 27 October 2012 host the Provincial Finals of the Football and Netball Tournament that started with eliminations at local municipality level during the past two months.  

The provincial finals which will involve both male and female football teams as well as netball teams from the four districts will take place at Mmabatho Stadium and Montshioa Stadium.

“Working closely with relevant structures, we want to ensure that sport development becomes a reality in this talent flowing province”, said MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture, Mme Tebogo Modise, adding that such arrangements would be a continuous practice, to strengthen cooperation and support with Sport Federations, secondly to verify if local structures/associations are existing and functional in all service points and thirdly to identify areas that need intervention for local association to function efficiently and inclusively within communities in our areas.

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